
NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI 



On Tor Na inder^The Hill" 



ADAMS COUNTY 



And the Neighboring Territory. 



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:e. <^. idoIl^^:e= Sz, Co., 

tieiinal Life, AccidoiU, Fire, Tornado, Ylariiie, Inlaiul m{\ Hull 

INSURANCE AGENTS 

XC). 9! M \1^ ^'^ ■'■" ^■^" MRS) 

Natchez, - - - Miss. 

Represent the follow in*^ named Companies, which stand at the very 
head and front of Insurance Companies in the world, viz : 

Liverpool & London <S: ( dohe. Capital and assets. $35,000,000.00 

Home, of New York - SI, 000, 000.00 

Pha-ni.\, of New \'ork, ^,383.000.00 

(iermania, of New York, 2,750,000.00 

Hanover, of Nt^w ^'ork. 2,750,000.00 

Phfi-nix, of Hartford, 4,700,000.00 

New Orleans Insurance Association. 500,000.00 

lu|uitable, (tire) of Meridian. - 1 00,000.00 

Total Tire Assets, - 1 iS;n(w-^.no 

LIL1-: AND 1)1-:N T COMPANH. 

rhe i^cjuitable Life Assurance Society, Assets $75,500,000.00 

The Travelers Accident Insun'- '^" i ].....< '',000, 000. o« 

J'oial .\ssets, P ire and Lih . . . . ;;^ 1 42,683,000.00 

These Comjjanies are Time Tried and Fire Tested: have stood 
the sht)ck of the Chicai^o and Boston tires and the plaijues and epidemics 
i){ disease that have swept over the earth from time to time and are readv 
to-day to furnish the most reliable indemnit)- for the lowest j^remium com- 
patable with correct under-writini^. Losses will be promptly and fairl\- 
adjusteil and paid in accordance with the terms of the contract. vSpecial 
attention i^ivcn to country risks. Stores, Dwellinirs. Clins and Cotton. 

Trointrty ownei:s will find it to their interest to call on or write to us 
before placin^i^ their insurance. It will ])ay. and pay biic- Ii" Rkli.\bi,i 
Indkm.mtv is w^at )-ou want, come to us. If you are after Cheaj) insur- 
ance becaus(/!t is Ch(;ap(?) _n<) somewh <• do not keep that kind. 



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Respecttuiiv 

E.G. DeLap&Co. 



©HE gUBBN (qWY op ^HB SoUTH. 






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On Top, not "Under the Hill." 

Its Beautiful and Healthy Location, the Superior Facilities 
FOR Manufactories AND the Low Cost of Living"Justify 
the Assertion that Health, Happiness and 
I f.) Wealth Awaits All Good Citizens. 

ADAMS COUNTY 



And the Neighboring Territory, 

With Fertile Soil, Suitable for the Cultivation of any Crop 

Known to the North, and Many Unknown There 

Contribute to Natchez' Prosperity. 



NATCHEZ: 
DAILY DEMOCRAT STEAM PRINT. 




J^I^GFfKge. 



Knowledge of the idea which prevails in the North. East and 
West that the Southern people do not welcome strangers in their midst 
has prompted this work. It has been the aim of the editor to present 
unvarnished facts for the consideration of those into whose hands this 
pamphlet may fall, and we send it forth dedicating it to the welfare of the 
merchants who have so generously aided its publication, and of the whole 
country it represents. 

An incident in connection with this publication will suffice to 
illustrate the feeling of our people: The editor is an Ohioan, who, after 
a residence of almost two years here, conceived the idea of telling the 
"up-country" people something of this portion of the Sunny South and 
thought to attract attention by the tide " Points to the Yankees." It did 
attract attention, but at the wronor end of the line. A number of most 
prominent citizens at once objected saying : " We like your idea, but your 
title, never ! The epithet ' Yankee ' was applied in time of war, with all 
hatred, and was intended as a mortal insult to our invading enemies. But 
that time has long since passed, and, sir, we are all Yankees now.' 
This same feeling pervades the whole community in and around Natchez 
to an extent that is almost universally observed by strangers, and that 
makes a residence here, from the very first, a pleasant one There is no 
section of the South or North where the stranger is sooner or more 
pleasantly made to feel at home. 

Many of the articles are contributions of genuine Southerners 
who are well known for their integrity, their familiarity with the history 
and growth of Natchez and the country tributary thereto, the customs 
and feelings of the people; and what they have to say may be relied on. 
We return thanks to the contributors for their kind assistance, and hope 
they may live to see our beautiful city reap the harvest they have sown. 

The Natchez Daily Democrat and corps have placed us 
under obligations for innumerable and valuable favors, for which we are 
gratified to thus publicly thank them. 

The illustrations are all good for which due credit should be 
given to Mr. H. C. Norman, photographer, of this city, and Messrs. A. 
Zeese & Co., engravers, Chicago. 

G. N. M'GOr^MIGI^. 



"ESTABLISHED 1865. 




HE Natchez Democrat 



-[Daily and Weekly.]- 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY. 

JAMES \V. LAMBERT, Proprietor. 



''v77'eels:l3r, ^3_SO ^er '2'ea,r, ixi .A.d.'vaxice. 



THE DEMOCRATS 



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IS SUPPLIED WITH 



Everything Necessary for First-Class Work. 

BILL HEADS. CIRCULARS, POSTERS. 

NOTE HEADS, PROGRAMMES, DODGERS, 

LETTER HEADS, INVITATIONS, Etc., Etc , Etc. 

ORDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. 



H^^This Pamphlet is a Specimen of Our Work.^^^i^ 



NATCHEZ: 

toS ^ASm, ^I^ESENT AND RUTUI^E. 
By MAJ. THOMAS GRAFTON, 

EDITOR NATCHEZ DE MOV EAT. 



i?77' 



fHE City of Natchez is 272 miles above New Orleans, on the Mississippi river, and is 
one of the oldest towns in the Southwest, The site for the town was selected by 
Bienville in 1700, and the fortress of Fort Rosalie was erected and settlers brought to 
^' the place in 17 12, two years before the same indomitable chieftain located the City of 
New Orleans. The magnificent beauty of the location attracted the attention of the adven- 
turous explorer after encountering the gloomy monotony of three hundred miles of travel on 
the muddy river, through swamps covered with a dense growth of timber hung with the 
sombre and funereal Spanish moss, and dense jungles of cane, palmetto and thickets of 
undergrowth. 

Bienville at once located a site for a town on the romantic hills which here at an eleva- 
tion of nearly two hundred feet overlook the channel of the mightiest river in the world. 



He doubtless designed it as 
government of the French 
of d'Iberville, but the lat- 
his government at New 
garrisoned and held as an 
settlement. The fort was 
the beautiful countess of 
derived its name from the 
habited the country in the 
Tradition points to this 
intelligent of all the abo- 
has painted them in colors 
with our ideas of the mod- 
de Chateaubriand, who. at 
this section of the country, 
mantic traditions of the 
gether with the beautiful 
scenery of the country 




the place for the seat of 

colony under the control 

ter, a few years later, fixed 

Orleans and Natchez was 

outpost of the new French 

called Rosahe in honor of 

Ponchartrain, am I Natchez: 

tribe of Indians which in- 

vicinity of the fortress. 

tribe as one of the most 

riginal tribes and romance 

that scarcely correspond 

ern Indian savage. Count 

sw^i a later period, traveled irt 

-.Hiir^ doubtless heard these ro- 
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N^Z/\ '^^^^ \"^"'^^'*^^~~~;?«^'''' ''" Natchez, and these to- 
K/iAi^n -rii^iiiA.- /^r-. A I— i-^ki landscapes and the grand 
MAJOR THOMAS GRAFTON, around Natchez doubtless. 

inspired the lovely episode of "Attala," inserted in his wonderful work Genie du C/iristianis/ne,. 
and the characteristic descriptions in "The Natchez" and "Rene." 

The French garrison soon alienated the good opinions of the Natchez and it was not 
long before they conspired with other tribes for its destruction. Tradition says a daughter 
of the "Sun," the chief of the Natchez, who loved one of the officers of the garrison, en- 
deavored to save the French from their fate, but in vain. She succeeded, however, in so 
deranging the plans of the Indians that only her own tribe, the Natchez, were present on 
the day fixed for the massacre. These, under the pretense of having a grand ball play, as- 
sembled around the Fort, the large entrance to which was left open that the garrison might 
witness the sports of the Indians. In the midst of the play one of the Indians sent the 
ball flying through the open gate, and there was a general rush of the dusky players through 
the gate as if to recover the ball. Having thus gained entrance to the Fort, and the French 
suspecting no danger, an attack was made on the defenceless soldiers and soon most of 
them fell victims to the revenge of the Indians. 

This massacre, which occurred in 1729, was soon after avenged by the French and the 
Indian tribes who had now become the enemies of their former allies, the Natchez, and this 
most interesting of all the Southern Indian tribes, was exterminated. The name of the 
lost tribe was, however retained as that of the new settlement, and the "Natchez country'* 
soon became noted for its beauty and fertility, and it was soon one of the most flourishing 
of the French-American settlements. It continued to be a French military and trading 
post until 1763 when it passed by treaty into the hands of the English. The name of the 



NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future. 



Fort was changed to Panmure. Scarcely a vestige of its history remains during its posses- 
sion by England, but a number of English settlers came to the place, the descendants of a 
few ot whom still remain among the population. 

In the year 1779 it was taken possession of by Spain as a part of Florida, and contin- 
ued under Spanish control until 1797, when a rectification of the lines between the United 
States and the Spanish colonies threw it into the United States. 

The occupation of Natchez by the Spanish government is probably the most interesting 
period of its early history. Large numbers of enterprising Americans, attracted by the 
fame of the fertility and beauty of the country, and encouraged by the generous manner in 
which they were treated by the Spanish regime, flocked to Natchez and its vicinity, and long 
before it was known to be Aaierican territory the anglicised population were prepared for 
the advent of a Republican form of government. 

The residence of the Spanish Governor was at Natchez, and for the greater part of the 
time of the Si)anish administration the position was held by Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, 
ably assisted by Don Stephen Minor, an American who had taken service with Spain. Gov- 
ernor Gayoso was a man of liberal views and encouraged the immigration of settlers from 




NATCHEZ CITY HOSPITAL 
every country, to whom he willingly made grants of land for settlement and lots in the city 
for building. He anticipated a brilliant future tor the seat of his government. The resi- 
dence lots of the various classes of settlers in the town were kept pretty strictly separated, 
and that portion near the bluffs on the river was known to the settlers as " Spanish Town," 
while that portion east of the present Commerce street was designated " Irish Town." It 
is related that a rather well to-do man, not of Spanish origin, approached the Governor with 
a request for a building lot near the bluffs. "No, sir," was the Governor's reply; ''No, sir. 
This part of the City is reserved for the residences of Spanish Grandees." 

A Church was erected in what was intended to be the centre of the town and from the 
door of this Church the town was laid off in rectangular squares embracing within tl?e city 
one mile in each direction. All the lands in this boundary were donated in lots to settlers, 
except the space "reserved for the residences of Spanish Grandees," which fell into the 
hands of the United States government and afterwards became the source of bitter litigation 
between the City and Jefferson College. 

The buildings in the town were of an humble and rather primitive character, and few 
traces of them are now in existence. 

At length the United States took active steps to settle the question of the limits of the 



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poi^ Beddings ^ ^ai^ties 

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DEALER IN 



Harflware aiifl Hoise-FiirnistoE Goofls 

LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR- 

no. 12 union s&. 



WM. GRIFFIN 

BAR AND POOL ROOM 

COR. MAIN & COMMERCE. 

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II HeliaUe Goods 

at Lowest Prices, 



PRINCIPAL OFFICE, loo MAIN ST. 
YARD FOOT OF MAIN ST. 



J. M. BOWEN, MANAGER 



L. A. BENOIST, 

91 MAIN STREET, 



o^c-ai^SSX-ic 



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M. F. BUNNING & CO. 

TEMPLE OF PHARMACY 

111 l^^Ta-irj. St. 

Perscriptions a Specialty 



NATCHEZ 



MISS- 



©EF^PLIMEI^Y AND SOILET fJl^liIGLiES 
BAIPBNT fflEDIGINES, CTG. 



Cona-pliirxexits of 

— Dealer in — 

General Merchandise 

(Qadison St. and (Semetei^y FJoad 
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NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future, 



two countries, as it was evident that the claim of Spain was made to territory far north of 
its true boundary. A detachment of troops under command of Capt. Guion was sent to 
demand possession of Natchez in 1797. The detachment consisted of two companies of 
infantry selected from the command of General (Mad Anthony) Wayne and were com- 
manded by Lieuts. Pope and McCleary. After considerable delay, during which a good' 
deal of excitement existed among the American inhabitants, negotiations were brought to 
an end by the silent withdrawal, at night, of the Spanish troops, and the United States flag 
was peacefully hoisted over the ramjmrts of Fort Panmure, and Natchez was recognized as 
an American town. In 1798 Mississippi was organized as a Territory, and Natchez was 
made the Capital. Hon. AVinthrop Sargent, the first Governor, had his residence here, and 
with his Executive Council framed the laws for the Territory. 

As in the present day, the printing press followed the footsteps of American pioneers, 
and i^robably the first newspaper ever printed in the Southwest was issued in Natchez by 
Col. Andrew Murschalk, in 1798. The first laws for the regulation of the Territory were 
printed by him the same year. 

After the transfer of the Territory, immigration to Natchez and its vicinity became 
rapid and the town soon assumed a prosperous and thriving appearance ; soon the log and 
picket houses were replaced by brick and frame tenements. The trade of the place in- 




PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM. 



creased rapidly, and the foundations of large fortunes were laid by commercial men in 
Natchez. Millaudom, of New Orleans, MuUanphy, of St. Louis, Ralston, of Philadelphia, 
Washington Jackson, of Liverpool, and many other ])romincnt merchants of the United 
States and other countries began their mercantile career in Natchez. Probably in no part 
o£ the L^nited States was wealth more rapidly accumulated than it was by the hardy and ad- 
venturous men who were the pioneers in the American settlement of Natchez. 

The soil of the country contiguous to the City was of an extremely fertile character and 
the cultivation of cotton by slave labor was exceedingly profitable, and the planter who gave 
proper attention to his business soon became wealthy, and the merchants of the town found 
a large sale for their goods at very remunerative profits. The first forty years of the present 
century was the most prosperous period in the history of Natchez, and the wealth and en- 
terprise of its peoi)le were at least equal to that of any community in the United States. 

Early in this century a branch of the L'nited States Bank was established in Natchez, 
and a State bank, the Bank of Mississippi, was also established in 1809. With these the 
business of the merchants and others of the town and surrounding country was conducted, 
and they were the only banking institutions in the State until 1830, when the Planters' Bank, 
was chartered to take the place of the Mississippi Bank whose charter was about to expire. 



NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future. 



About this time a sjieculative mania began in the States and it was found that the 
banking faciUties of the City were not sufficient for its business demands. The Agricultu- 
ral Bank was chartered and not long after another, the Commercial Bank, was added to the 
number, and at the same time banking privileges were conferred upon a Railroad Company 
incorporated for the construction of a road from Natchez to Jackson, and the Natchez Ship- 
ping Company, organized for direct shipping between the port of Natchez and the ports of 
the world. 

A cotton compress was built, and in 1838 as many as six sailing vessels of good size 
were lying at one time at the wharf near the compress loading with cotton for the East and 
for England. About the same time probably the first cotton seed oil mill ever built was 
constructed in this city. The process of linting and hulling the seed, and of purifying the oil 
was unknown to these adventurous oil men and a market for their crude oil could not be 
found, and financial troubles prevented them from realizing the benefits of their enterprise. 

A cotton mill was also erected about the same time, and thus Natchez had at that early 
date, three of the enterprises which fifty years after have been found to be so profitable, and 
one, a direct shipping enterprise, which has not yet been revived. 

In 1836 or '37 the people of Natchez began the construction of a railroad, of a 5-feet 




ROSALIE COTTON MILL. 



gauge, to Jackson, and finished it some forty miles on a perfectly level grade, it being tho't 
at that time that a locomotive could not overcome any serious grade. It, too, was stopped 
by the financial troubles which followed a period of inflation. 

It has already been said that during the decade from 1830 to 1840 Natchez had five 
banks of issue and deposit. During the same period some twenty-five banks were chartered 
and put in operation in other jjlaces in the State. These all discounted largely wnile very 
few of them had any considerable line of deposits. A speculative mania had seized upon 
the people of Mississippi in which those of Natchez largely shared. A personal endorse- 
ment, generally not of a gilt-edged character, was all that was necessary to secure loans at 
easy rates from the banks. A redundency of currency naturally produced inflation in value 
of real estate, and plantations and slaves were bought and sold at extravagant prices. This 
continued until the country was filled with irredeemable currency, and finally the bubble 
burst bringing ruin upon those who bought at inflated prices. 

It may be imagined that the business of the City received a severe check from the re- 
duction of values to one-tenth of what they had before been. Wide spread ruin was the 
result and a blow had been given to all kinds of business from which under the most favor- 
able circumstances it would have been hard to recover. 

To add to the depression: in May, 1840, Natchez was visited by one of the most de- 



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Fine ^eweli^y, 

Batches, €t6. 



SILVER WATCHES, FROM $10 UP 
**" GOLD WATCHES, FROM $ 5 UP 

REAL DIAMOND RINGS FROM $10 UP 
REAL DIAMOND EAR RINGS FROM $10 UP 



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NAIPGHEZ, MISS. 



MANUFACTURERS AGENTS, 

IMPORTERS AND DEALERS, 

Pure Drugs, Paints, Oils, 



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NATCHEZ, MISS. 
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druggists sundries. 



AND GENERAL STORE SUNDRIES. 



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MINERAL Water bottlers. 

Also VVliolesale Deuleis in 

Cigars, Crackers, and Fruits. 

N. B. — Our Stick Candy is absolutely- 
pure and highly flavored. Packed full weight 
All sizes made to order. 

Price List sent on application. 

SALVO &BERDON 

Nos. 104-6-8 Main Street. 
P. O. Box 97. NATCHEZ, MISS. 



W.B.BRIELJR. 

NO. 83 MAIN S^r^EBiF 

Books, 

Stationery, 

Fancy Goods, 
Notions, Toys 
Etc., £tc., £tc. 

25 M Wlite Epeloiies for 5 CcdIs 
18 Ms M Note Paper for 5 Cents 

AND OTHER GOODS 

Proportionately Low ! 



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LADIES', "MISSES', GENTLEMEN'S, YOUTHS' 
AND CHILDREN'S 



Fire and Life 



Fine Boots and Shoes! i^eal Estate Agent 



Children's from 5octs to $i.oo 
Misses from 7 sets to $2.00 
Ladies from $1,00 to $4.00 
Gents Lace. Button and Gaiters from 
$1.50 to $5.00. 



TRUNKS AND VALiSES 



No. 95 MAIN STREET. 



National Bani^ Building, 
Represents 

Western Asi^iuANCE Co.. of Toronto, Can. 
Crescent Insurance Co.. of New Orleans, 
CoLiMHLS Ins. As Banking Co.. of iMiss . 
Ger.man American; Ins. Co . of New York, 
Manhattan Life Ins. Co., of New York. 

Buys and Sells all Descriptions of 



REAL ESTATE 



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B. B. DflUIS, 

llj j Builder, 
FAMILY AND FANXY Carpenter, 

G R O C E RI E S I Contractor. 

Cigars 6^ Tobacco, ^^^Estimates and Designs fur- 

n k MnirC^ rn IIITC TTA "'s^"*^*^ promptly, and all work gruar- 

uANUlcSi rRUITSi ETU anteed in accordance widi specifica 

' ' tions, every time. 

156 FRANKLIN ST. 



NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future 



stnictive tornados that has ever occurred in this country. Its business houses were leveled 
with the ground and the whole city was a wreck. From this blow, under the depressed 
condition of financial matters, the City was very slow in recovering. 

X . The planters, in the meanwhile, had formed business connections in distant cities and 
the plantation business of the City was reduced to a minimum. Planting was found to be 
the most profitable business, and investments were made almost entirely in cotton planting, 
the planters making their purchases almost entirely in New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis 
and other distant cities. All the banks failed, the compress, the oil mill, the cotton factory, 
and even the railroad had to succumb to the stringency of the financial condition. 

Thus Natchez, from being one of the leading towns in the South, became secondary 
in importance, and although it was always valued as a ])lace of residence, on account of its 
beautiful location, its healthy climate, the excellence of its public school system, and the 
high morality that characterized its people; it lost much of its prestige and tlie war coming 
on gave a final blow to its old time prosperity. 

When the war closed it was for a while thought the City could never recover from the 
ruin which had been brought upon the i)eople of Natchez and its vicinity. The wealth of 
the planters was gone, and those who had lived a life of lu.xury and elegance found them- 
selves reduced to poverty. 

But the war which had spread ruin and desolation over the land, had left to Natchez a 




Residence of R. F. Learned, President Natchez Cotton Mills Company, 
class of earnest, enterprising young men who went to work vigorously to recruit their for- 
tunes. Their service in the army had accustomed them to work anil hardened their sinews 
and prepared their hearts for the struggle in a more peaceful field, for an object not less dear 
to them, the comfort and support of themselves and their families. With brave hearts they 
worked at the task of building a new prosperity on the ruins which they found left to them 
by the unfortunate contest through which they had just passed. The results have been such 
as the most sanguine among them could scarcely have hoped for. 

As the South has been rehabilitated under the changed condition of our labor system, 
so Natchez too has j^ut on a new phase, and one which promises to make of it a more pros- 
perous and important City than it has ever been before. Probably no locality in the South 
])assed through the era of reconstruction more quietly and more j)rudently than Natchez. 
By the tact of its people the City and County government was restored to its inteUigent 
people without a single act of violence or one drop of blood shed. Quietly and peacefully 
the control of public aflairs was regained and the class of population from whom danger 
was feared acquiesced in the action of our i)rudent citizens with apparent pleasure. 

With the restoration of the City and County governments to intelligent and honest 
hands, one of the first things was the construction of a railroad from Natchez to Jackson, 
a point where connection was formed with the system of railroads extending in every direc- 



NATCHEZ— Its Fast, Present and Future. 



tion over the Union. This work was done by home capital alone, the County issuing^ its 
bonds which were taken by citizens of the County, for the construction of this road ,_ "^ 

This gave the first impulse to a spirit of enterprise which speedily resulted in the 
erection of two large cotton mills, two mills for the manufacture of cotton seed oil, two iron 
foundries, a cotton compress, an elevator from the river to the top of the high bluff on which 
the City stands, a street railway and a large number of minor manufacturing establishments. 

It is the proud boast of the people of Natchez that it has depended for its improve- 
ments solely on the enterprise of its own people. Its isolated position had prevented it 
from attracting the attention of the capitalists of the world, and in self defense it was com- 
pelled to be self dependent. 

The spirited action of its people has now however, drawn attention to it, and enter- 
prises are being projected which will add very largely to its commercial importance. One 
of the most important of these is a railroad on which work will be begun early in the fall, 
the New Orleans, Natchez & Fort Scott railroad, which connects Natchez directly with the 
Great West and makes it a distributing point for Northern products to a very large portion 
of the Southwest. 

The extension of the Natchez, Jackson & Columbus railroad to Columbus and Decatur, 
which is a probability of the near future, will make one of the most direct outlets to the 
Mississippi river for the rich mineral productions of Alabama and Tennessee. 









FIRST NATIONAL BANK • .: 

A road has also been built with Natchez capital from Vidalia, La., to Trinity, on Black 
river, which will doubtless develope into a western road through Texas and give to Natchez 
the benefit of one of the best trades in the South. In addition to these roads, a railroad is 
contemplated due east from Natchez through the finest forests of pine timber in the United 
States, which, when built would bring here for shipment immense quantities of lumber for 
the North and West. 

These and other railroad enterprises that are in contemplation, will make of this City 
a centre of trade that will be surpassed by no other city in the South. The manufacturing 
spirit of the peoj^le of Natchez, together with its facilities for carrying on industries of all 
kinds, points to the conclusion that it will become one of the most important of Southern 
manufacturing cities. 

These all indicate a future for Natchez that will be brilliant and useful. Its beautiful 
location, its delightful climate, its phenomenal healthfulness, the fertility of the country which 
surrounds it, the generosity and hospitality of its people all point to Natchez and its vicinity 
at the present time as it did in the years long ago, as the garden of the South, the favorite 
land of the emigrant hunting a home, of the invalid in search of health, and of the denizen 
of the bleak, cold North seeking a genial winter home in a land of sunny homes and gen- 
erous hearts. 



ESTATE L D. ALDRICH 

Wholesale and Rt'trtil dealer iu 

CUTLERY, CHINA, SILVER 

ANDGLASS WARE, 

CHANDELIERS, BRACKET LAMPS, 

LAMP TRIMMINGS. OILS, AND 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS 



., A, Benoist 



91 Main St., 



Natchez, Miss. 



Keeps always on hand full lines 



GENERALLY. 



Xlo. 81, 



0)AiN St. 



LOUIS BOTTO 



SlICCESSOK TO JOHN BOTTO, 



WINES, 
LIQUORS. 
CORDIALS 



FAMILY aBOCEBIES 

COR. MAIN AND WALL STS., 

Natchez, - - Miss. 




GentsTuriiishingGoods 



©ATi^ONAGB Solicited. 



WM. STEITENROTH 



CQODEI^N fll^GHI'PEGI' AND BULIDEP^ 



Plans for Residences, Stores and Buildings 

of All Descriptions, furnished at 

Very Reasonable Prices 



OFFICE :— Room 5, Democrat Building. 



NATCHEZ, MISS. 



ABE MOSES. 



MAURICE MOSES. 



f{. Si CQ. GQoses, 

COTTON & COTTON SEED BUYERS 



-AND- 



Dealers in all Kinds of Merchandise, 



NO. 2 2 COMMERCE ST. 



C. T. CHAMBERLAIN. 



J. \V. H. PATTERSON. 



PROPRIETORS 

-- :OF:-- 

THE JEFFERSON 

Liyery, Feed & Sale 

Stables. 

Where we buy and 
sell Horses, Mules, 
Cattle, Carriajjes, 
Buggies & Wagons. 



PROFRIETORS 

-. :OF:- 

Ceiitral Wood Yard 

— IN — 

NATCHEZ, MISS. 

— AND — 

Mof.es' Sfeambnat 
Wood Yard. 12 miles 
above >{utchez. 



NEW STORE ! NEW STOCK ! 

FERD. D. MANNOCCI, 

FANCY GROCERIES, 

FRUITS, 

JTOBAGGO ^ GIGAI^S. 



PURITY 

BF GOODS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT 
GUARANTEED. 

FRANKLIN STREET 

CORNER RANKIN. 



Chamberlain & Patterson, 

DEALERS IN 

Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Notions 

84 MAIN STREET, 
NATCHEZ, - - - MISS. 

This well-known house was established 
in 1869, since which time it has done the 
leading Dry Goods business of the city. 

They keep constantly on hand the larg- 
est and handsomest assortment of Goods in 
their line, and give close personal attention 
to their business. 



AGENTS FOR 



THE PIONEER HOUSE: 



WHOLESALE 

HARDWARE, STOVES, METALS, 

BUILDERS', MACHINISTS' AND WAG- 
ON MAKERS' SUPPLIES. 

IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLE- 
MENTS. 

FACTOR OF THE LEADING 

PLOWS, PLANTERS, 

MOWERS AND CULTIVATORS. 

SPECIAL AGENT FOR 

STEAM ENGINES, COTTON GINS, 

PRESSES AND GRIST MILLS. 



LARGEST STOCK AND LOWEST PRICES 

J. C SCHV7ARTZ. 



NATCHEZ — Its Government and Politics — Schools. 



G0VER3MENT A^O POLITICS. 

&■:? . , - .-: 

f^HE Municipal Government of Natchez 
'^ is simple and inexpensive. The Exec- 
[ utive and Legislative government is 
"?!;-}' vested in a Mayor and Board of eight 
Aldermen. Two aldermen represent the 
people of each ward, and they are elected on 
alternate years for a term of two years each. 












HON. WM. H. MALLERY, Mayor. 

The working force of the Board is consti- 
tuted by committees, appointed by the May- 
or. 

The Board elect all the subordinate of- 
ficers, city clerk, assessor, treasurer, solicitor, 
marshal and police force. 

The Mayor is ex-officio Recorder and 
judge of the Police court, and has jurisdic- 
tion in all cases coming under the city ordi- 
nances. 




JOHN GRADY, Alderman, 1st Ward. 
City monies are closely looked after by 
the Finance committee of the Board, and the 
streets, Fires, Lights, Water, Health, and 
other committees, keeps the corporation in 
a healthy state financially and physically. 



Annually, in August, the committees 
make up their budget of probable expenses 
for the ensuing year, and make the tax levy 
just cover it. 

The city debt is small only $18,000 in 
warrants which are receivable at par for city 
taxes, so there is no necessity for a sinking 




L. G. ALDRICH, Alderman, 1st Ward. 
fund, consequently taxes are low. 

Politics might be said to be unknown 
here, the tickets rarely if ever contain the 
name of a party, or, if they do, it is not read. 
The people, white and black, look out for 
the interest "of the city and vote for the indi- 
vidual they will best fill the position to which 
he aspires. 

OUR SCHOOLS. 

BY PROF. J. W. HENDERSON, SUPERINTENDENT. 

fin HE public schools of Natchez are one 
HJ;!. of its interesting features; and the liber- 
^ll al scale upon which they are conducted 
^(^ is a striking evidence of the hold which 
they have upon the hearts of her citizens. 
Enrolled in these schools are 1195 P'^" 
pils, distributed as follows : White, males, 
269; white females, 286 ; colored males, 276; 
colored females, 367. Twenty-three teach- 
ers are employed at salaries ranging from 
$40 to $100 per month. The school session 
commences October i, and continues nine 
months, leaving a vacation during the 
months of July, August and September. 
Separate buildings are provided for the two 
races; these are large, well ventilated, well 
lighted and are located in different quarters 
of the city. Play-grounds, maps, black- 
boards, abundance of fuel in winter, and 



8 



NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 



everything that can conduce to the moral, 
intellectual and physical welfare of the chil- 
dren, are liberally provided. The school for 
whites is divided into twelve departments; 
that for blacks into eleven departments. 
Each school has its principal and both are 
under the supervision of a general superin- 
tendent. 

The school for whites has been in exis- 
tence more than torty years. Many of our 




GEO- T. PAYNE, Alderman, 2d Ward, 
most substantial citizens are indebted to it 
alone for the education which has made 
them influential men in our community, and 
to-day it is as thorough and systematic as it 
has ever been in the past. 

There are also a number of private schools 




P. W. MULVIHILL, Alderman, 2d Ward. 

in the city for small children, and one or two 
normal institutions where the higher branch- 
es are taught. 

Natchez college, an advanced institution. 



for colored people, is located in the suburbs 
of the city, and is successfully managed. 
I ' At Washington six miles away is old Jef- 
ferson College, one of the oldest institutions 
of its kind in the United States. Jefferson 
Davis, the famous president of the Confed- 
eracy was a student there, and associated 
with him were some of the greatest statesmen 
Mississippi has produced. The college is 
Hberally endowed and gives a very thorough 
course. 






^"^ 






iiffe 



OUR INDUSTRIES. 



^i;^HEN you begin to talk of manufactor- 
ies, the South takes a seat several rows 
from the front. Nevertheless she is 
an interested spectator and is fast 




J. B. O'BRIEN, Alderman, 3d Ward, 
working forward. In the olden times, from 
sheer force of habit, she looked northward 
for every manufactured article ; even send- 
ing all her great cotton product to the east- 
ern mills to be worked up into cloth, think- 
ing, doubtless, that the number of mills in. 
that part of the country was sufficient to 
supply all demands likely ever to be made 
upon them, and that to put money into a 
mill in the South was next thing to throw- 
ing it into the fire; then, too, they were a 
fastidious people, and did not like the idea 
of having the jmvacy of their beautiful 
homes invaded by the smoke and dust and 
noise which are attendant upon great manu- 
factories. Years, and increasing population 
and demands, proved their error however, 
and they were not slow to see that if the 



M 



FOUR MILES OF ROAD BUILT AND 
UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 



PROPRIETORS OF THE 



CASINO AND PARK 



LIGHTED BY 



ELECTRICITY 



IN THE STATE, 
Auditorium seating 2,000 Persons. 
THOS. REBER, Pres. 



1. SHLENKEU. 

Trovville. !>:<. 



SHLEXKER & HIRSCU, 

NMtcliez. Miss. 



Shlenker&Hirsch 

NO. 16 COMMERCE ST. 

DRY GOODS, 
CLOTHINXx, 

HATS & CAPS 

BOOTS & SHOES 

FURNITURE. 
GROCERIES, 
TOBACCOS, 

BAGGING&TIES 

MEATS. 

TRUNKS & VALISES, 

PLANTATION SUPPLIES, 

Liberal Advances 

Made on Growing Crops and Consignments. 



H 



J. B. O BRI£N, Agt. 



Wholesale and Eetail Dealeis in 



riinEDiisH m 



Orders for Coal along the line 
of the N.J. & C. R. R. will receive 
prompt attention. 



Orders left at branch office, in 
Democrat building, will receive 
prompt attention. 



EST, OF P, WALSH 

Natchez M:ss. 
2S Corr:Lrr:Lerce St. 



CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS and 

MATTINGS EXCLUSIVELY. 



2-^ OoanrLrrtLerce St- 

FINE DRESS GOODS, DOMESTICS, 

WOOLENS, HOSIERY. SHOES, 
FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY, ETC., 



2G OorrzLXiirrLerce St. 

(COR. OF STATE.) 

FAMILY GROCERIES AND HOUSE. 

FURNISHING GOODS OF 

ALL KINDS. 



W. B. DICKS & CO., 

Boots and Shoes 



The Celebrated 




'en's File Mi 



A SPECIALTY. 
LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S 

SHOES 

89 MAIN STREET. 

DM Vilf Sti 

Everything hrst-class and the 
-lowest priced house in the city. 



<;HIN AWARE, 

CROCK K It Y, 
WOODEN WARE, 

TOYS, 
FANCY" VASES. 



GLXS^WARE, 
TINWARE. 
WIIJ.OW WARE 
DOEI.S. 
LAMPS, 



SPECIALTY OF CUTLERY. 

HOLLIDAY GOODS IN SEASON, AND 
LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. 

STAPLE AND FANCY GRO- 
CERIES. 

Accommodating clerks. No trouble to 
■chow goods. 

HENRY DAVIS, 

134 6 FRANKLIN ST. 



MARX & SCHARFF 

AVHOLESALE 




"ACME" 
" BAKER RYE" 

And all promiment 
brands 



I A full stock of the best 
brands constantly kept 



HAZLEKIRKE," 
Grand Havana" 
HENO' 

And other brands 



S 



All the Leading 
.. Brands constantly 
iJ in stock 




II Depot for the old oricrinal 
" BUDWEISER." 



Having just opened in the New Polkdnghorne 
Building, 

NO. 152 FRANKLIN STREET, 

I have on hand a new and complete stock of 

GROC ERIES 



PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

From my long acquaintance with the 
business, I am pre[)ared to give perfect sat- 
isfaction to my cubtomers. 

MR, CHAS. WHITCOMB, 

Of late firm of Grover &: Whilcomb, will 
be found at above stand with me. 

Geo. L. Whitcomb, 



NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 



South would prosper she must subordinate 
pride to necessity and industry. 

With the balance Natchez sized up the 
situation and went to work. As a result we 
show. 

The Natchez Cotton Mill, which occupies 
nearly a whole block in the city, with hand- 
some buildings, where over three hundred 
persons are employed, running three hundred 
looms and ten thousand spindles, where over 




A. L. HOWE, Alderman, 3d Ward. 
$4,000 per month are paid out in wages, 
where about 4,000 bales of cotton are con 
sumed annually in making about 5,000,000 
yards of cloth. 

The Rosalie Mills another industry in the 
same line, where over 3,000 bales of cotton 
are annually manufactured into towels, blue 




R. S. DIXON, Alderman, 4th Ward, 
cloth and a variety of other grades of goods, 
where $3,000 are monthly paid to employ- 
es. 

Two large Cotton .Seed Oil Mills, em- 
ploying about seventy-five men each The 
works of these institutions occupy nearly two 
blocks, and are a portion of the greatest in 
dustrial enterprise ever started in the South. 



A Cotton Compress, where bales of the 
great staple are placed in the most compact 
form for foreign shipment. This new enter- 
prises has probably done the city more good 
than the same investment ever did any 
town. It has brought this year over 15,000 
bales of cotton to this market more than> 
usual. It has made this a ])oint where buy- 
ers congregate, and the prices paid during 




GEO. T. REHN, Alderman, 4th Ward, 
the past season have compared most favora- 
bly with New Oi leans. 

Two Brass and Iron Foundries, one of 
them an extensive institution, employing a_ 
large number of skilled mechanics and ea- 




THOS. R. QUARTERMAN, City Clerk, 
tering extensively into the manufacture of 
steam boilers and engines. 

Two Cotton Gins of large capacity, using: 
steam power, and employing many hands 
each. 

A Batting Mill where the lint from the 
cotton seed is manufactured into neat rolls, 
of cotton batting which are shii)ped North to 



NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 



be used in making comforts to protect the 
people from King Frost on cold nights. 

Two Extensive Lumber Mills, supplying 
the demand for building material, in native 
woods. 

An Ice Factory, witl? a capacity of eighteen 
tons every twenty-four hours. 

The Bluff City Railway company with 
wharf and incline to the hill tops and tracks 
through the city for the distribution of freight, 




F. J. Arrighi, City Assessor. 
is a convenient and paying institution and 
employs usually about forty men. 

A Stained Glass Works is about ready to 
■open business, and is the first of its kind in 
the South. It is started by two of our most 
^energetic young men associated with a gen- 




W. T. MARTIN, Pres. N. J. & C. Ry. 
tleman from the North, and its prospects are 
of the finest. 

A Street Railway traverses the city from 
the steamboat landing to a park two and a 
half miles away in the eastern suburbs of the 



city, and gives employment to ten or twelve 
men. 

The manner of receiving our coal supply 
makes this a great industry. The coal comes 
here from the upper Ohio in barges and has 
to be wheeled out onto the bank in barrows 
which gives employment to three hundred 
men at least six months in the year. 

Two Brick Yards, each owning extensive 




S. E. RUMBLE, Pres. Bluff City Ry. 

grounds and manufacturing first-class goods 
at reasonable i)rices, are among the great 
wage-paying industries of our city. 

Two mineral water bottling establishments 
with a capacity each of i8o dozen bottles. 

Three manufacturing confectioners, two 
of whom make 1200 pounds of candy per 




THOS. REBER, Pres. Natchez Street Ry. 
day each, and give employment to eight or 
ten men. 

A meal mill in connection with one of the 
gins does the local grinding. 

A beer bottling institution of large capaci- 
ty- 



TIIOS. MASON. 



GEO. T. REIIN. 



M 



ASON 



&R 



EHN, 



THE OLDEST WHOLESALE AND RE- 
TAIL HOUSE IN NATCHEZ. 

This tiim ranks up iimon>j the leadiiie: 
ones of tlie South. An evidence that their 
<.'xten.«ive business is known generally, is in 
the fact that nianufactniers of farm imple- 
ments of all kinds, are continually seeking to 
place an agency with iheui. Their main line 
is 

Groceries and Plantation Supplies 

But they sliow a variety of 

Cotton Gins! Wagons! 

AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS. 

All goods delivered to depots, steamboat 
landings, or any part of the city free. 



J. R. KIRKPATUICK. 



H. L. PURNELL. 




THE GKEAT 8H0K MAX OF NATCHEZ. 

Wlio inauffurated low retail |irices in slioes, liuB as- 
toni!flic(l liis competitors and I lie iiulilic with his sue- 
(•CC8. lU'KNs sells Shoes in all lines the be<it ana 
cheapest — at wlxdesale prices freijrht added. He has 
the lar>rest retail trade base 1 <«n spot cash ^ales. Or- 
ders from the c-oiintry will have special attention 

In I'onuection with shoes, Hums is known as the 
great IJaker and Klonr de iler of .Natchez. 

Address, 1* BIKXS, 43 & 4.'. Pine Street, Satchez 



ESTABLISHED 1887. 



KIRKPATRICK I PURNELL 



DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS 



NO 85 MAIN STREET, 



NATCHEZ, 



MISS. 



Our establishment is second to 
none in the State in point of Ele- 
o^ance and Completeness. J. R. 
Kirkpatrick, the senior partner of 
the firm, has charge of the Pre- 
scription Department with an ex- 
perience of 15 years. 

TS^^Our Homoepathic Depart- 
ment is now the most complete in 
the State. Give us a call when you 
visit Natchez. 



E. L MIDDLETON, 

PROPRIETOR 

ELITE SALOON, 
53 Main St. 

OPERA SALOON, 
Democrat Building. 



Coi3apliiaa.eii.ts Of 



V^. H. MALLERY, 



THE LEADING GROCER 



OF NATCHEZ. 



OoisiplimLents of 



JULIUS W. ROOS, 

DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF 

Plantation Supplies 

Over Three Hundred and Fifty 
People Advanced Every Year 

FaiutliLariestCdtloEHaDiriiitleCHj 

A man whom his neighbors and 
competitors will recommend. 

COR. PINE AND JEFFERSON STS., 

NATCHEZ, MISS. 



MARTIN & LANNEAU, 



pTTOI^NEYS AT liAW, 



Practice in the Courts of Adams 
and adjoining Counties, and be- 
fore the Supreme Court. 



R. G. Musgrove & Co., 

COTTON BUYERS 

Office in Democrat Building, 

NATCHEZ, MISS, 

Planters will find it to their in- 
terest to call upon us before selling 
their cotton. All communications 
addressed to us will receive prompt 
attention. 

We buy cotton along the river 
and railroad. Do not consign your 
cotton to New Orleans or Memphis 
whe you can sell it to us and save 
commission and niimerous charges. 

The Natchez market is the 
place to dispose of your crop at fan- 
cy prices. Cotton consigned to us 
will be held subject to instructions. 



NATCHEZ— Her Churches. 



There are also in course of construction a 
fine system of water works which will give 
employment to a great many hands this year, 
and put about $75,000 in circulation in our 
city. 

The Gas Works is an old established con- 
cern, and affords an illumination superior to 
that of many larger cities. 

The Daily Democrat justly comes under 
the head ot our industries. It is a member 




H. R STEELE, Pres. N., R. R. &. T. Ry. 

of the associated press and gives the latest 
telegraphic news in time for breakfast every 
morning except Monday. It gives employ- 
ment to about fifteen men. 

The Tri- Weekly Banner is another !o ;al 
industry and while only a yearling, is a 




R. F. LEARNED, Pres. Natchez Cotton MiH. 
sprightly child. It furnishes employment for 
eight or ten people. 

That our people favor industrial ventures 
is evident from the fact that every dollar in- 
vested in those just enumerated is the money 
of Natchez people. But there are still many 
things needed which our people have not the 



money at present to proceed with. To the 
people of the North therefore is this mvita- 
tion extended "Come over into Macedonia 
and help us !" 



QUR CHURCHES. 



PRESBYTERIAN. 



HE Presbyterian congregation at Natchez- 
is a large and vigorous body. They have 
a spacious and elegant house of wor- 
ship at the corner of Pearl and State 




J. C. SCHWARTZ, Pres. Rosalie Cotton MilL 
streets, a chapel at the corner of Pearl and 
Washington streets, and a mission station oi> 
St. Catherine street. A Presbyterian ele- 
ment existed in this community prior to the 




LOUIS BOTTO. Pres. Compress Co. 
establishment of the Mississii)pi Territory irr 
1797, consisting of colonists of Scotch origin 
a>.d from New England. They were formalljr' 
organized mto a church in 1S17. The pur- 



12 



NATCHEZ— Her Churches. 



pose to erect a place of worship had been 
formed as early as iSio. and was completed 
in 1815. The original structure was replaced 
in 1829 by a more im])Osing one, and this, in 
turn, was enlarged in 1H51 into the dimen- 
sions and form in which the present stately 
edifice appears. 

The number of enrolled communicants in 
this church is about 360. The pastor is the 
Rev. Joseph B. Stratton D. D., who com- 
menced his ministry at this point and has 
been in office since December 31, 1843. As- 
sociated with him is a Bench of 9 Elders and 
a Board of 5 Deacons. 

The constituency of the Presbyterian 



THE METHODIST CHURCH. 

>^H E introduction of Methodism in Natchez 
^ occurred in 1798, the same year in which 
United States authority was established here. 
Tobias Gibson, a South Carolinian, was the 
first minister, and Natchez was one of a large 
circuit of ajjpointments which it became his 
duty to fill. He traveled on horseback or 
on foot and endured all the hardships in- 
cident to a new country, and succeeded 
in establishing in a few years such congrega- 
tions that assistances was re(piired to attend 
the work. This was furnished by volunteers 
from the army of willing workers educated 




ST. MARY S CATHEDRAL, NATCHEZ. 



church has always included in it some ot the 
best members ot this community, and has 
furnished a succession of })ublic spirited work- 
ers in every cause connected with the edu- 
cational philanthropic and moral interests of 
the city. Its policy has been uniformly con- 
servative, and its relation with other religious 
bodies have been maintained in a generous 
and fraternal spirit. The congregation is in 
all respects in a healthy and prosperous con- 
dition at the present time. 



in the faith, and the results have been satis- 
factory in the extreme. Their system of 
changing ministers and the many excellent 
men who have been stationed here in conse- 
quence, render it impossible to go into de- 
tails in this work, but that the church has 
has kei)t apace with others in the matter of 
successful work is evident in the splendid 
structure occupied by a large congregation, 
on the corner of Jefferson and Union streets, 
Wesley chapel, a less pretentious, but not 
less zealous church for the benefit of the 
factory operatives and citizens of the north- 



[ESTABLISHED 1881.] 

J, R, KIRKPATRICK, 
Dl^UGGIST AND (ShBMIST 

NO. 102 PI^ANI^LiIN ST. 

NATCHEZ. . - - - MISS. 

The Prescription Department is presided 
over by Mr. W. E. Irwin, with ample expe- 
rience, assistcvl by Mr. Leon L. Geisenber- 
GER. I manufacture a full Hne of 

PROPRIETARY REMEDIES! 

Among them the Justly Celebrated 

Mi] Cliark Cure 

Which cures the Ver)- Worst case in from 
two to three days. If you doubt the merits 
of this Remedy, write for testimonials from 
some of the largest stock owners in this vi- 
cinity. This remedy is for sale by all Drug- 
gists in Natchez. 



Geo. S. I^ayne, 

DEALER IN 

Clothing, 
Dry Goods, 
Boots & Shoes, 

China, Glassware 

Anfl toeral Plantalioii Siippfe Hoise 



169 and 171 Franklin St., Cor. Pine. 



H 



CashPr 



IGHESTOASH JT RICE 



PAID KOR 



DONALDSO]N^ 

BOOK, STATIONERY 

AND MUSIC HOUSE 

Music 
Books, 




_^ Flutes, 

GUILD, CHURCH & CO., 

btnngs Manufacturers, Boston, Mass. Etc., 

of all kinds. Accordions, Harmonicas, 
and everything else in the music line. 

Sold on time and easy payments. Old 
pianos taken in part payment. 

Also a full stock of Blank Books, School 
Books in paper, Novels and Bound Books, 
and everything else in the Book and Station- 
ery line. NEWS DEPOT— Subscriptions 
taken for all Magazines and papers published 
at publishers rates. Remember the place, 

109 MAIN STREET. 



COTTOInT 



1663 ESTABLISHED 24 TEAKS. 1SS7 

HENI^Y FI^ANI^ 
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Hats 

The only exclusive jobbing house 
in the State in its line. 

For clear, business perception and strict- 
ly upright dealing, no merchant in the State 
enjoys a more enviable reputation than this 
mammoth dealer. His spacious establish- 
ment, eligibly located on the corner of Main 
and Pearl streets, consists of three stories — 
six large rooms — filled with the choicest goods 
to be found in the markets of the world. A 
visit through Mr. Frank's establishment re- 
veals a thoroughly systematic arrangement of 
his large stocks that will enable buyers to se- 
lect their purchases in the shortest order and 
with the most satisfactory results. An im- 
mense warehouse in close ])roximity to the 
main building, enables Mr. Frank to keep in 
stock full lines of goods suited to his large 
trade. In quality of goods, low prices, strict 
attention and upright dealing, Mr. Frank is 
sec nd to none. 



JO. F. FOARD, 

F.isident. 



ISAAC LOWEXBHRG, 

Vice President. 

B. \V. <)\V.»LKV, 

Aes't Cashier. 



A. G. CAMPBELL, 

Cashier. 



Ths First National Bank 

OF NATCHEZ, MISS. 

[Organized April, 1887.] 

Capital, - - - - $100,000 

A General Banking Business Transacted. 

Particular attention paid to collections 
throughout this section, and proceeds Prompt- 
ly Remitted on day of payment, at lowest rate 
of exchange. 

Accounts of Banks, Bankers, Corpora- 
tions, and Individuals received on favorable 
terms. 

DII^EGTGI^S: 

JO. F. FOARD, Nashville eiin , Sccreiarv and Treas- 
urer llcda Ciial Ci^nipiUiv. 

A. G < AMI'BkLI,. 

L'l'iS UoTi'i', Pres't Na'chez Compress Companj-. 

I. LO\\>.M;UI{(i of I. !.(. Weill urg & Co., Wholesale 
Grocers and i 'oinuii-i ion Merchants. 

riENItV KR'NK, Whol(!-ale i\ Good- and Notions. 

H. L. 15 \KKH, 01 15aKer& McDowell, Wholesale Hard 
Wiire. 

T K. GUfcEN, Sheriff of Concordia Parish, La. 



I. LoWENBURG & Co 

EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE 

Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars 

Only Positively Exclusive Whole- 
sale Grocery in the City. 



COTTON FACTOES! 

I. LOWENBURG & CO. are the 
Largest Handlers of Cotton in the 
City. They pay the Highest 
Prices going, and try to please all 
persons dealing with them. 



JNO. J. O'FERRALL , H. C. NORMAN 



Fublic Bin d Mill 



DunrnPDiiDurD 

ARTISTIC 

I iiu I umini riLii 

Pine &Jor^i^ aif 

I^EASONABIiE gl^IGES 
The Photographs for this work were 

IGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON SEED '-><- ^y 

^ , ,„^ , ,^, ^ ^„ NORMAN 

Works at Forks-of-thG-Road" | 

St. Catherine Street. OVER 11 1 MAIN ST. 



DOES A REGULAR GINNING BUSI- 
NESS AND GRINDS CORN. 

Money Advanoed 

on Seed Cotton. 



NATCHEZ-Her Churches. 



em portion of this city, and a commodious 
brick structure on Pine^street, occupied by 
the colored Methodists. The membership 
of these churches is composed of some of 
our best people, both white and black and 
alWisitors are cordially welcomed. 

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



yplHE conception of old Trinity dates back 
^^ to a dining at the hospitable board of the 
late Dr. Stephen Duncan, during the year 
1 82 1. Before many days the seed germinated 
and the organization was accomplished. The 
Rev. James Pilmore was the first rector, and 
began his ministry here on Sunday evening. 
May, 10, 1 82 2, in the Presbyterian church. 



WALL STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. 



/^HR Wall Street Baptist Church is situ- 
^-^ ated on the corner of State and Wall 
streets. This organization in Natchez is a 
naif century old, the church being organized 
on the nth of January 1837. Rev. Ashley 
Vaughan, a clergyman from one of the North- 
ern States who came South in search of 
health, was its first Pastor. Their commodi- 
ous church house was erected in 185 1, and 
enlarged in 1857 to give seating capacity to 
the growing congregation. This church has 
at i)resent about two hundred members, and 
is in a growing and encouraging condition. 
Within the last two years their house of 
worship has been beautified and furnished 




L'J:VE^EUX HALL 
Soon after a subscription paper was started, 
for the purpose of securing aid to erect a 
church building, which was liberally .signed, 
and early in May 1823 the edifice was ready 
for occupation. Alterations and improve- 
ments were made in 1838 and more recenlty, 
until now they have an elegant house of 
worsiiip, at a cost of about $35,000. The 
Sunday-School Guild recently purchased a 
lot adjoining the one on which the church 
stands, and through the munificent liberahty 
of one of the parishoners, a Sunday-School 
and Parish Building is to be erected this sea- 
son, at a cost of over $10,000. 



ORPHAN ASYLUM. 

with modern appointments to make it attrac- 
tive and to inspire devotion. Neither pains 
nor means have been spared by the congre- 
gation to put it in a condition to be at once 
abreast with the present demands of the 
church-going public and a Sabbath home 
where the humble may feel easy and the 
stranger find a welcome. Though the recent 
improvements have cost about $2500 the 
organization is out of debt, and the member- 
ship united for aggressive work in our grow- 
ing city. The church has a live Sunday- 
School with one hundred and fifty scholars 
enrolled. For the last three years Rev. Z. 
T. Leavell has presided over the congrega- 
tion as Pastor, and enjoins the full confi- 
dence and the hearty and united support of 
his people. 



14 



NATCHEZ— Cotton Exchange. 



THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



>^HE history of Catholicism in this section 
^^ dates back to 1682. The notes of the 
progress of the church have been carefully 
kei)t and handed down to the people of the 
present day, and are very interesting. Natchez 
is the See of Mississippi, and Rt. Rev. F. 
Janssens is the present Bishop. He is a 
gentleman who rules his people by love, and 
he has won the esteem of members of all 
denominations, by his goodness. 

The church has the most beautiful and 
commodious building in the city, and we be- 
lieve in the entire South. 

Saint Marj^'s Ori)han Asylum, for girls, 
D'Evereux Hall an Orphan Asylum for boys, 
the Cathedral school, and St. Joseph's school 
are all under the auspices of the church and 
are most successful institutions. 

There is no ill feeling between them and 
the Protestants such as unfortunately exists 
in some places, but all work hand in hand 
to accomphsh good. 



COTTON AND MERCHANTS EXCHANGE. 

N May 26, 1886. our businessmen, real- 
izing the benefits to be derived from co- 
operative organization, secured a char- 
^ ter from the State of Mississippi and es- 
tablished "The Natchez Cotton and Mer- 




J. N. CARPENTER, Pres. Cotton Exchange, 
chants Exchange," ofiicered by the following 
leading business men: Joseph N. Carpen- 
ter, President ; A. G. Campbell, Vice-Presi- 
dent ; Simon Mayer, Secretary; Theo. V. 
Wensel, Treasurer. The Board of Directors 
are, Chas. T. Chamberlain, Geo. T. Payne, 



F. A. Dicks, Henry Frank and Isaac Low- 
enburg. 

Their headquarters are fitted up in modest 
but comfortable style at the corner of Main 
and Commerce streets, the heart of the city, 
and there they receive daily every half hour 
the market reports of the world, which are 
posted on the board for the edification of 
members. 

Their organization and the building of our 




MAJ. JOHN RAWLE. 

large cotton compress last year brought a 
flood of cotton buyers, who competed suc- 
cessfully with New Orleans, and induced an 
increase in cotton receipts of over 20.000 
bales. 

The expenses of the institution are light 
and the benefits have proven so great, with 
such prospects of even a better future, that 
it is no longer an experiment but is one of 
the solidest organization in the ctty. 



THE NATCHEZ CLUB. 

HIS social organization, was permanent- 
ly instituted on March 5th 1883, by 
. ^ election of L. G. Aldrich, President; 
.^ John Rawle, Vice-President; Richard 
Holmes, Secretary anil Treasurer, who have 
continued to fill same position by annual 
election. 

The club embraces in its membership about 
seventy-five citizens from the leading repre- 
sentatives of its various trades and profes- 
sions. 

Their rooms are centrally located with 
]ileasing inner and outer surroundings, and 
aftbrd agreeable relaxation from the cares and 
toils of business, by presenting to its mem- 
bers, innocent amusement as well as an ex- 
tensive collection of daily weekly and month- 



At 77 Main Street, corner of Main and 
Pearl, will be found the vast establishment 
of A. Bahin. The store is i6o feet deep, 
two stories high, and is well stocked with 
Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Notions and Milli- 
nery Goods, both wholesale and retail. 

This establishment is a sample of what 
uprightness and application to business will 
do. Mr. Bahin came to Natchez at the age 
of eight years, in 1850. After the war he 
found himself an orphan, without a cent. 

After clerking a few years he started in 
business with eight hundred dollars, and now 
finds himself one of the leading merchants, 
doing a large business. 

Though surprising to some, the head- 
way he made in business is the natural con- 
sequence of being surrounded by a fine coun- 
try both in Mississippi and Louisiana — lands 
that are capable of smiling abundant success 
to farmer and merchant alike. 

We commend the public at home and 
abroad to this wide-awake firm for goods in 
his line. And for good, honest goods, and 
good value for price, he cannot be excelled. 



F. W. BOGER, 

nil nnii 



PHOENIX 

uniuun. 

COMMERCE ST. 



Compliments of 




-DEALER IN 



THOMPSON S PARTRIDOE HaMwarB,HoiiSBFmlsMi(jOO[Is 



PUMPS, STOVES^ 



Pbaeer Cotton Buyers. StOO^Ri aad (j^S FlttlUgS 



BUY OVER HALF THE COTTON 
THAT COMES TO THE CITY. 



§^._ 



BUILDERS' MATERIALS, 

Doors, Sash & Blinds 

T|^^ In 'connection with my bus- 
iness tiie Largest Tin Shop in the 
in the City. 



O'Brien Sz Co. 

BEICK mim AND BUILDERS I 

i 
Work of every description solicited. 

ESTIilAATES FURNISHED for BUILDINGS 

and other work on application. 

BRICKS 

Sold and Delivered at Our 

Establislisd Reduced Rates. 



LOUIS KASTOR, 

1 17 Franklin St., 




B. SALVO, 

Club Caloon ^ Restaurant 

Fines'? Italian ANoflMEr^iGAN 

Dishes Sep^yed in Sipyle. 

lost ElBpt Bar 111 ttiB City 

^!^=^Only the Very Best Liquors 
and Cigars kept in stock. 



MANUFACTL KKK OF AN1> DKAI.KK IN 

SADDLES AND BRIDLES 

Repairing Neatly and Promptly 
Done. 



C. WEIR 

Wholesale and Retail 
BUTCHEES 

StMlls 4. G itnd 9, Natcliez Market. 

BOATS FUBKISHEB 



WITH BEEF, PORK AND 
MUTTON 

AT LOWEST PRICES. 

B^"Orders may be sent by telegraph at 
our expense., 



NATCHEZ — Real Estate and Rents — Adams County. 



i5 



ly publication, from the leading journals of 
this country and Kngland. 

Its hospitality to visiting strangers is in 
keeping with the world renowned reputation 
of the city whose name it bears. 

REAL ESTATEJND RENTS. 

fATCHEZ is on a boom, and has been 
for several years — not a fictitious boom 
gotten up by big mineral excitements, 
but a steady natural improvement, 
caused by the outside world discovering that 
on the bluffs overlooking the great Mississippi, 
stands a beautiful city just far enough south for 
a pleasant home, just high enough to insure 
health, and surroumled by a fertile country ; 




Dixon Brothers' Store and Glass Works, 
which insures good living. There are a (ew 
people here, who, in a spirit of love and ven- 
tion for the old homestead have placed a 
fictitious price on their land, but there is 
plenty of land to be had at a convenient dis- 
tance from the city at from $3 to $20 per 
acre, and improved land at that. Town lots 
can be purchased on good terms at reasonable 
prices. 

Rents for dwellings in Natchez, are like 
they are in other growing cities, rather high ; 
houses of four to five rooms near the center 
of the city rent for about $20 per month with 
a proportionate increase in houses with more 
rooms. The general expenses of living, fuel 
etc., are not so great as in the north and east, 
which I think more than makes up the differ- 
ence in rents. 



ADAMS COUNTY. 

BY ALLISON H. FOSTER. 



fjpO write of Adams county, its history of 

^jj. the past, its present activity and worth 

v'M and its future prospects of greater wealth 

and grandeur, is a pleasant duty. 

In the distant past, when the stillness of 

nature was only broken by the weird chant. 




Allison H. Foster, Chancery Clerk of County. 
or echoing, resounding whoop of the red man, 
as he roamed at will over the hills and val- 
leys of our country ; or when a softer spirit 
moved him, to woo, win and wed, the dusky 
maiden of the forest, under the shade of the 
majestic oak, in whose enfolding branches 
nestled the mistletoe, an allwise Deity, and 




James W. Lambert, Sheriff, 
bounteous nature, had generously endowed 
this favored spot, with many choice gifts. 

Advancing civilization, in its many and 
just conquests, long since forced the Indian 
with his untutored mind, to seek shelter, and 
erect his wigwam to the far west, and nearer 
the setting sun. "White Apple Village," 
in this county ; the once cherished home of 



|6 



ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources, Etc. 



mighty chiefs and tribes ; is now traced and 
recognized only, by the peaceful pursuits of the 
sturdy yeoman, as he follows the plow, and 
in due season gathers in the fruits, the natural 
reward of his honest labor. 

Adams county, fronts nearly one hundred 
miles, on the Mississippi river. The soil is 
alluvial, and, where not permitted, with con- 
stant tillage and without return to the soil 
to become worn and thin, is exceedingly 




Hon. O. N. Wilds, Pres. Poard of Supervisors 
rich and productive. The famous valley of 
Nile is no richer in soil, than the bot- 



the 



torn lands of Adams county. 

The topography of our country is varied 
and in places rolling, while in others we find 
plateaus, and rising or hilly ground. The 
chief product of our county is cotton ; but 




J. C. Stowers, Member Board of Supervisors 
four other crops can be raised annually on 
the same ground. There is not an acre of 
land in the county, if properly cultivated, 
that will not return annuallv a cash value of 



fifty dollars ; and this land can now be pur- 
chased from $2 GO to $20 per acre. 

The climate here is delightful, trees in 
foliage and flowers blooming in profusion in 
the months of February and March. Think 
of it. oh, denizens of the congealed north 
and east, and envy must for a time en- 
throne itself within your breasts. We, con- 
tem])late you, as snowed in. ice bound, cold 
and freezing, while we, with doors and win- 




H. B. Vaughan, Member Board of Supervisors 
dows open are inhaling the perfume of bud- 
ding flowers, and listening to the songs of the 
mocking bird. 

Adams county invites you to join, in the 
triumphal march of the emancipated New 
South. Her people are intelligant, courteous, 
industrious and refined, and all who come to 




J. H. Rowan, Member Board of Supervisors 
partake of her fortunes will be met with 
cordial greetings and neither asked or in- 
fluenced concerning their political or religious 
fealty or allegiance. Good men, and good 




Residence of J. R. Kirkpatrick, Natchez. 




"Montaigne," Residence of Gen. W. T. Martin, Natchez Suburbs. 




D'Evereux," Property of Miss M. S. Martin, Natchez Suburbs. 




Residence of Alderman Geo T. Rehn, Natchez. 



ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources. Etc. 



17 



citizens alone, are wanted, and to such, we 
have abundant room, and a hearty, generous, 
and honest welcome. 

The early boyhood days of the writer hav- 
ing been spent in the place of his nativity, 
the old "Granite " State, and therefore be- 
ing somewhat familiar with the mode of 
farming and customs of the people both 
North and South, is constrained to assert 
that the intelligent, frugal, industrious North- 




C. L. Tillman, Treasurer. 

em farmer, if transplanted to this portion of 
the South, and exercising here like habits of 
thrift, industry and economy as at the North, 
would, in the brief period of ten years, or less, 
awake to the pleasing fact that his posses- 
sions were abundantlv sufficient to enable 




Walter McCrea, Deputy Clerk. 

him to enjoy the rest of his days independ- 
ent of manual labor for a support. 

No better field presents itself for the es- 
tablishment of manufactories, and especially 
of wood-work, than Natchez and Adams 



county, as timber of the best quahty and of 
many species abounds in almost endless 
quantity, right at our doors. 

The future of Natchez and Adams county- 
is assured and bright, and chief among the 
jewels that adorn and crown them is the love 
of country, confidence and determination 
within the hearts of the good people to bend 
every energy to the advancement and weal 
of both. Southward the "Star of Empire" 




John Harper, Deputy Sheriff, 
is at last seen ; it is making rapid progress in 
this direction, and is received by the New 
South with open arms, brave, honest and 
manly hearts, and welcome, thrice welcome 
to our shores. 

Lands here are now cheap, but are fast 
becoming equalized in value, with that in 
other portions of our common country. 

Adams county invites a fair, yes, critical 




Salvo & Berdon's Block, Natchez, 
inspection of the many advantages she pre- 
sents to those seeking homes in the South, 
or safe and profitable investments ; and con- 
scious she is that the verdict of "the stranger 



t8 



ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources, Etc.— Board of Supervisors. 



within our gates" will not be adverse to her 
present worth or future greatness. 

Far be it from me to misrepresent ; conse- 
quently 1 affirm that "milk and honey" are 
only obtained here, as the certain, just, and 
merited reward, for manly enterprise devo- 
tion to duty, and honest industry. Human 
mature, here, is compassed with foibles and 
frailties, common to mankind, and is no nearer 
Divine than at the North. If one here, were 
to revile, malign or traduce the names or 
memory of Generals Lee or Jackson, the of- 
fender would instantly regret that he were 
not possessed of the strength of Sampson and 
science of Sullivan, with which to defend his 
unsavory person. I imagine, the spirit of 
human nature and justice would obtain in the 



f 



COUNTr BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. 

^^} 

-T is very gratifying to us, to write of the 
conservative, wide, and intelligent man- 
agement of county affairs, by our Board 
of Supervisors. 

For some years after the war, things ob- 
tained, under the chaotic condition of our 
county then existing, that were neither equita- 
ble; just, or complimentary to our ability, and 
inalienable right, of self government. Hap- 
pily, those things are of the past. In 1875 
the good citizens of our county, irrespective 
of party or color, united, and placed in 
power, men of well known ability and integ- 
rity, and men who regarded the county's in- 




i^i^iii^ 



Bluff City Railway Inc 

North, were contumely or malevolence s|joken 
against the honored names or memory of 
President Lincoln or General Grant. Sec- 
tionalism here, is buried in the dark gloom 
of the past, and its phantom, is not permitted 
to cross or shadow our pathway. May the 
day soon come when deriding allusions to 
the Nations honored dead, whether of the 
blue or gray and wheresoever in our blessed 
and united country made, shall be quickly. 
spontaneously and patiiotically denounced 
and resented. Such, I believe, is now, the 
honest sentiment, and patriotism, that, un- 
bidden, wells up from the hearts of a brave, 
united and devoted people. 



line to the Hill Tops. 



terests as their own. Results plainly demon- 
strate the wisdom of the people's choice. 
From the legacy of debt, profligacy, and bur- 
densome taxation handed down, our Board of 
Supervisors, have so eminently managed the 
people's trust, confided to their care, that 
long years ago, order from chaos, economy 
from profligacy, and minimum taxation from 
that bordering upon absolute confiscation, 
has pre-eminently marked their faithful, and 
oft-times self-sacrificing labors. 

Some changes in the Board that first en- 
tered official life in January 1876, have, by 
death, resignation and retirement been made ; 
but the i)eople teel justly proud of the good 
work of all that have been connected with it 



E. J. BYRNE. 



F. J. BYRNE. 



E, J, BYRNE & BRO 



DEALERS IN 



STAPLE AND FANCY 

GROCERIES 

Plantation Supplies, 

Fine V/ines, Liquors, 
Tobacoo, Cigars, Etc. 

i6o Franklin St., NATCHEZ, MISS. 

E. DREVFUS, 

JOBBFF IN 

Provisions, Grain, 

SUGAI^, (©OPPEES, 
fflOLASSES, I^IGE, 

©I^OPIGAL Fl^aiTS ^ ^I^ODUGB 
33^ 35' 37» 40 & 42 Pine Street, 

NRTCHEZ, - - - MISS. 

RECOGNIZED FACT. 

By the people that we are Leading in As- 
sortment^ Attraction and Loivest Prices. 

STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, 

NOTIONS. LADIES' & GENTS' 

FURNISHING GOODS 

SHOES, ETC. 

M. &S. DREYFUS 

116 Franklin Street. 



Baker \ llcOowdl 

wholesale and retail 

HARDWARE 

Stoves, Tinware 

Farming Implements. 



AGENTS FOR 



Buckeye Mowers 

and Pratt Gins 

COR. FRANKLIN & COMMERCE STS 

NATCHEZ, MISS. 



F. Toilet Articles, 3 

A- Colognes, K 

D Extracts. Q 

I Powders, \ 

C Sponges. D 

K Soaps. A. 

Natchez, S. Combs, F. Natchez, 
Miss. Brushes, Miss. 

Etc,, Etc., 
CQlNEI^AL COATEI^S. PANGY GOODS, 



Salurian, 
Excelsior, 
Coopers Wells, 
Blue Lick, 
Hunyadi, 
Appolonaris, 
Etc., Etc. 



Puff Boxes, 
Toilet Setts, 
Lamp Goods, 
Bisque Ware, 
Vases & Figures 
Bronze Goods, 
Etc., Etc. 



AGENTS 



Hawke's Crystalized 

Spectacle & Eye Lenses 



15 and 
Commerce 



-RA. 



76 
Miiii St. 



Retail Prescription Departments. 



FopnlatioB of ITatchez, 11,000. FopobUon of Adams Coaaty 25,000 



Fine Farms ior E::change 

Kentucky farms, the finest in the 
State, will be exchanged for Mis- 
sissippi and Louisiana farms, or will 
be sold at close figures. 

a. C. BLACKBURN 

Livest Real Estate Agent in Mis- 
sissippi. 

P. O. BOX 134. 



LUMBER 

of all kinds 

FOR BUILDING PURPOSES 

Constantly in stock at 



to 




Mail Orders Prompdy Attended to 
and Satisfaction Guaranteed 

R. F. LEARNED 

Natchez, Miss. 




6 Cols. Folio- 

LEON C. DUCHESNE. Prop. & Pub. 

Fearless and independent. Fa- 
vors tariff protection and reform in 
the liquor trafific. Although only 
established March 1886, it has the 
largest circulation of any paper here. 
The best medium in this State for 
advertising. 

RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. 

SUBSCRIPTION— Three Months, $1.00; 
Six Months, $2.00; One Year, $4.00. 



■ For Sale or Mango 1 

TemessBB Coal M \m Lais 

Blackburn has the best list in Mis- 
sissippi. All titles made perfect 
without any work by the purchaser. 

EASY TERMS 



G. U 




REAL ESTATE AGENT 

NATCHEZ- 



ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources. Etc.— Hack Rates. 



during that period. With good roads, bridges, 
and low taxation, our people are contented 
and happy. 

The gentlemen composing our Board of 
Supervisors, are the Hon. Oliver N. Wilds, 
President J Jas. H. Rowan, H. B. Vaughan 
Jno. C. Stowers and A. P. Williams. Mr. 
Wilds has been on the Board twelve, Mr. 
Rowan ten, and the others a lesser number 
of years. Mr. Williams is a colored man. 

The names of other members during said 
period, and not now connected with the Board, 



vehicle drawn by two horses or other animals, 
with one or more passengers, $8 oo. 

For the use of any Hack or vehicle, with 
one or more passengers, with the privilege 
of going from place to place, and stopping as 
often as may be requested, for the first hour, 
$2 oo. 

For each succeeding hour, $i oo. 

For attending funerals, $3 00. 

The following rates shall be charged byjthe 
owner or driver of any wagon for the trans- 
portation of baggage, as follows, viz • 




School, (Colored), Natchez, 



are the Hon. T. C. Pollock (deceased) late 
President, and Geo. M. Marshall, Daniel F. 
Ashford, and Alex Smart, (also a colored 
man.) To the names, memory and work of 
all and to our present Board, the welcome 
plaudit goes out : "Well done thou good and 
faithful servants." 



HACK RATES. 



CITV ORDINANCE. 



For conveying a passenger not exceeding 
one mile, 50 cts. 

For conveying a passenger over one mile, 
75 cts. 

After loo'lock at night, double rates. 

For use by the day of any Hack or other 



For transporting each and every trunk, not 
exceeding one mile, 25 cts. 

For transporting each and every trunk any 
distance over one mile, 50 cts. 

B®"Hack owners or drivers are required 
to keep these rules posted in a conspicuous 
place within their vehicles. 

All hotels and boarding houses are within 
a mile of steamboat landings and depots. 



20 



ADAMS COUNTY— Truck Farming and Gardening. 



TRUCK FARMING AND GARDENING. 

^HE possibilities in this branch of agri- 
culture are without limit ; the local mar- 
ket is good and the shipping facilities by 
river and rail are excellent. The follow- 
ing extract from a local paper will best illus- 
trate the advantages offered by our climate 



Rose potatoes on a piece of land near town, 
about one hundred and fifty feet square, from 
which he gathered twenty- five barrels of as 
fine potatoes as can be produced anywhere. 
The barrels used by him held three bushels, 
and putting the price at one dollar per bushel 
which can readily be realized, the yield bnngs 
him seventy-five dollars. The cost of pro- 




Presbyterian Church, Natchez. 



and soil. 

" An instance of the profitable returns trom 
truck farming and rotation of crops has been 
brought to our notice recently. Mr. Isaac 
Friedler made a planting in January of Early 



ducing, including the price of the potatoes 
planted, did not exceed five dollars, and since 
taking off the crop in April, he has planted 
the same ground in cotton, and will, with 
favorable seasons, make a full crop." — Con- 







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Residence of John A. Dicks, Natchez. 




-i A. C. Britten, Banker, fx 



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j^^tiwscSi^-.' ■ ;.-' ■''■'^'i 



" Dunleith," Suburban Residence of J. N. Carpenter. 

'7 > oDa.v'/5> 





Chamberlain & Paterson's Block. 



M. Neihysel's Confectionery. 



ADAMS COUNTY — Truck Farming and Gardening — Farnns and Farming. 21 



cordia, (La.) Sentinel, May 7. 

The above is not a rare case of production 
but was the result of only moderate atten- 
tion; and the same conditions will apply to 
any other crop planted in the garden or truck 
patch. 

A friend, who lives in the southern part of 
this county, brougnt the writer a basket of 
strawberries on the first of May, which had 
been hurriedly picked, just before starting to 
the city, without sorting for large ones, and 
nine of them filled a pint measure. The 
gentleman informed us that he had paid no 
special attention to his plants farther than to 
get good ones and protect them from weeds 
and grass. 

Blackberries and dew berries grow wild in 



FARMS AND jARMING. 

HE variety of opportunities and advan- 
tages offered by this country is so great 
that it is almost impossible to give a 
coherent idea of them in a work like 
this, but if, by enumerating a few, an inves- 
tigation of the claims of the South can be 
secured, we have nothing to fear for our fu- 
ture. 

The topography of the country is very simi- 
lar to that in Northern Indiana and Central 
Ohio. It is well drained, well watered and 
and the soil is a rich alluvial deposit of won- 
derful depth and strength, and is well adapt- 
ed for any crops raised in the North, East or 
West. The warm winters are not good for 




almost inexhaustible quantities, 

been selling on the streets during the ])ast 

two months at ten cents per gallon. 

Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, etc-, 
are in their natural element here, and from 
two to four finely matured crops ars produced 
on the same ground every season. 

Help is cheap and general expenses are 
light, while the gardener has the fixing of his 
own prices for his products, for, if he cannot 
get his prices here, he can conveniently ship 
to greater markets. 



Residence Alderman L. G. Aldrlch, Natchez 
and have 



fall wheat, but aside from that any crop can 
be profitably cultivated. Mississippi produced 
last year 25,765,000 bushels of corn 3,962,- 
000 bushels ofoats, i 73,000 bushels of wheat, 
hundreds of thousands of tons of timothy, 
clover and other grasses, all grasses thrive 
well here, and the main question with the 
farmers has been to discover which contains 
the greatest nutriment. The following com- 
parative analysis is by Prof Phares of one of 
Mississippi's agricultural colleges: 
Japan Clover (Lespedeza Striata) Hay 

71.85 per cent nutriment. 
Red Clover Hay 57. " " " 

Orchard Grass 52. " " "■ 



ADAMS COUNTY— Farms and Farming— Fruit Culture. 



Pea 56. " " 

Vetches 49. " " " 

Timothy 48.50. " " " 

Blue Grass 48. 

In addition to being the most nutritious, 
the LespeJeza is considered the strongest fer- 
tilzer known, and a vigorous, hearty plant, 
which yields well in either wet or dry seasons. 

The system of farming, as followed by the 
darkies, has gotton this country into bad re- 
pute as far as agriculture goes, but a visit 
and personal inspection by the average North- 
ern farmer will convince him of the great er 
ror. Take, for instance, our short winters, 
instead of havinc to feed stock seven or eight 



FRUIT CULTURE. 

'^f N days gone by no country was more justly 
^ ■ celebrated for its fine fruit than South- 
f\ West Mississippi. During the war the 
i!c orchards were neglected and many were 
totally obliterated from the face of the earth, 
and when peace once more reigned the peo- 
ple had to plant something that promised 
quicker returns than fruit trees. After a few 
years however, they began to set out young 
trees, and now there are to be found many 
nice orchards of apples, peaches, pears, plums, 
quinces, apricots, pumegranates, olives, figs, 
pecans, grapes, etc., but there is room for 




Opera House, Natchez. 



months on grain aud hay, we feed one month 
on hay, and many do not feed at all. Our 
summers are long but not excessively hot, 
there is a pleasant gulf breeze at times and the 
nights are almost invariably cool and delight- 
ful. Our altitude is such that malaria is un 
known. The price of our land is low, from 
three to twenty dollars per acre and good 
roads all the year round by. which to reach it. 
Our educational and religious facilities are 
old established. Our people are not only 
willing, but anxious for thrifty farmers to come 
among them, and by these presents do guar- 
antee them as good treatment and as good a 
living, easier made than in the much boomed 
West. 



many more and a profitable return to their 
owners for the trouble of planting. All fruit 
ripens early and there is a fortune in a very 
few years to the man who ships to the North. 
It is a mistaken idea that the majority of 
the Northern people have about this as a 
fruit country. Fresh figs are the only fruit 
which can not be shipped as they come from 
the tree, in that regard they are like a per- 
simmon and must be dried before shipment. 
The fig is considered the most w^holesome of 
fruits, one can eat all he wants without the 
slightest danger, and as they grow so abund- 
antly here, we guarantee any and all who come 
here in June and July all they can eat fresh 
from the trees, or with cream and sugar, for 
breakfast, they cannot fail to give even a dys- 
peptic an appetite, and aid in restoring his 
health and consequently his good nature. 






R, F. LEARNED 



L 



SAWED LUMBER, 

SHINGLES, 
LATHS, ETC., 



NATCHEZ. 



S. C. BLACKBURN, 

REAL ESTATE AGENT 

NATCHEZ. 

CITY ANDSUBURBAN LOTS 
FROM $150 UP. 



Fine residences, with all modern 
improvements, for sale and rent. 
To those who wish a home in the 
South during the winter, Blackburn 
ofieFs inducements, liaving some of 
the finest mansions for rent. 



STEPHEN R I^OWEI^ 



c 



OMMERCIAL 



Br 



OKER 



186S 



1878 



I88Z 



NATCHEZ, MISS. 



Representing old established firnns of un- 
doubted character and sterling integrity. 

Flour Manufacturers, Grain, Feed, and Com- 
mission Merchants, Native Wines Company, 
the very best in the United States. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

Kehlor Bros., St. Louis, Flour Manufac- 
turers, capacity, 5000 barrels per day. 

WiNFREE, Adams & Loyd, Lynchburg, Va., 
Tobacco Manufacturers, "Arkansas Trav- 
eler." 

fifeT'Corn Meal, Grain, Hay and Feed or- 
dered daily by wire. 

I can be found daily from 12 to 6 o'clock at 
the Insurance office of Oren Metcalfe, 
Esq., 65 Main street, opposite Brit- 
ton & Koontz Bank. 



FRANK P, BEATTY 

RANGY ^ STAPLE 

G-ROGERIES 

©01^. Union and p^eppef^son Sts, 
Goods Delivered Free. 



H. F. WEST, 

WHOLESAL'; AND RETAIL 

DRUGGIST 



AND MANUFACTURING 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO HOME IN- 
TERESTS PUBLISHED THURSDAYS. 



THE TRINITY HERALD 



Circulates in the Parishes of Catahoula, Cc 
cordia, Franklin, Tensas, Caldwell, 
Winn and Ouachita. 



PHARMACIST, 

Cor. Main and Commerce Sts., 
NATCHEZ, ... MISS. 

STATIONERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, 

S E E ID S. 

Toilet and Fancy articles of all kinds. 

a®"Prescriptions a specialty, and great at- 
tention IS paid to the purity of our drugs and 
chemicals. 

Valueable house-hold remedies manufactured I 
in our own laboratory. 



[ESTABLISHED 1867.] 

JOS. RE ALE, 

Nos. 123 & 125 Franklin. 

Dealer in Western Produce, Fancy Gro- 
ceries, Liquors and Wines of all kinds, and 
Sole Agent for the celebrated 

WM. J. LEMP'S BBSr^ 

(The Best in the Market) 

Mr. Reale is permanently estabHshed at 
the above numbers, where you will always 
find him in attendance and with his polite 
assistants, who are reavly at all times to serve 
h s customers and friends whomay favor him 
with their business, promising at all times, 
good treatment, honest weight and prices as 
low as the lowest. His stock is alway-: fresh 
and complete, and consists of Hay, Corn, 
Oats, Bran, Flour, Meal, Meats, Sugar Cured 
Hams, Sugar, CotTee, Tea and Fancy Gro- 
ceries of all kinds, Wines, Liquors, etc., in 
fact everything that is to be found in a first- 
class grocery store. Try him, vou will be 
well pleased with prices and goods. 



J. N. CARPENTER. 



G. G. KLAPP. 



J. N, CARPENTER & CO. 

Cotton Factors and 
Commission Morohants 



0PPI6IAL joui^NAL \"'.^'c:^::r^^';:^^-:f-^^ 

I OMI V U/^TTOl-. ^., . „ 

Of the Parish of Catahoula. 
YjUGH &5AJITS0N 

Business G}anagei^ 
trinity, catahoula parish, la. 



ONLY HOUSE OF ITS KIND IN 
NATCHEZ. 

. Consignments of cotton will receive full 
justice as the members of this firm a e ex 

Snfoirr^""' ^"'^'^^ ^h^'^ -hole at- 
tention to the interests of their patrons. 

Tv\n7^^L^^''f ""^^"^led facilities for car- 
rying on their business. 



ADAMS COUNTY— Health. 



23 



Fruit begins to ripen about the first of April, 
and continues until late in the fall, and with 
anything like proper care the little enemies, 
so commonly known in the North are entirely 
avoided here. 

Melons, we need not mention for the rea- 
son that the darkie, the mule and the melon 
are so thoroughly associated in the mind of 
the Northern people that where one exists 
they know the others certainly do, and also 
for the reason that if we were to tell the 
whole truth you wouldn't believe it ; so we 
send you this invitation to come and see for 
yourselves. 



OUR HEALTH. 



BY J. C. FRENCH, M. D. 



year. 



HE object of this article is to set forth 
the advantages of the City of Natchez 
and County of Adams as health and 
pleasure resorts at all seasons of the 
It is written at the request of the pub- 




DR. J. C. FRENCH. 

lisher of this work, and in answer to many 
letters received by the writer from friends and 
acquaintances in Southeastern Indiana and 
Ohio. 

My personal experience in this country is 
as follows: On November lo, 1885, I, 
with my family, landed in Natchez, leaving 
our old home, (Greensburg, Ind.,) contrary 
to the advice of our relatives and friends, 
who told us that we Northern people would 
not be welcome here, that we would be os- 
tracised from society, that no one would 
want my professional services, that we would 
have malaria and yellow fever and die ; that 
Northern people could not live in this cli- 
mate, etc. During my residence of about 



three years in Natchez, I have found my 
friends were mistaken. In the first place we 
were welcomed by a people than whom there 
are no more sociable, hospitable, sympathiz- 
ing and generous anywhere ; they ever have 
a hearty welcome for all good citizens. 

Now about our health: The day we left 
Indiana my wife weighed 116 pounds; to-day 
she weighs 140 pounds. During the cold, 
damp winter season in Indiana, she had a 
continuous, distressing cough; she now has 
no cough either winter or summer, and en- 
joys perfect health. My weight was 135 
pounds; to-day I "knock the beam" at 170 
pounds. My two children, as well as Mrs. 
French and myself, have never been sick a 
day. We are Hving monuments to the virtue 
of the climate of Natchez. The foregoing is 
a true statement of facts, and I hope will 
convince some of their mistaken opinion of 
this country. 

Natchez, destined to be the metropolis of 
this section of the country, is a live city of 
magnificent expectations and over 11,000 in- 
habitants. It is a well-known settled principle 




CAPT. J. M. BOWEN, Coal Dealer, 
of economy, that in order to secure the per- 
manent growth of a city, every citizen and 
every department of the city's government 
should work together in perfect harmony 
and union. This principle has been enforced 
here, and the existing circumstances are all 
favorable to a growing and substantial boom. 

Natchez is recorded the second healthiest 
city in the United States — New Haven, Con- 
necticut, taking first honors. 

What makes it so healthy? First, its 
high elevation ; second, its natural drainage ; 
third, its spring-like climate ; fourth, its pure 
drinking water. These four advantages we 
will consider separately and leave you to 
compare with other places. 

Its High Elevation — Many people in the 
North and Northwest have the opinion that 



24 



ADAMS COUNTY— Health— Live Stock. 



all the territory south of Mason & Dixon's 
line is a breeder and feeder of malaria. This 
is as true of a portion of the South as it is of 
the Wabash section of Indiana. The swamp 
country of Mississippi and Louisiana is lull 
of malaria at certain seasons of the year, 
and it is very hazardous for a person not ac- 
climated, to even visit that section during 
such periods. The only malarial deseases 
Natchez physicians have to contend with are 
in people from the swamp, who come over 
to the hills annually for medical treatment, 
and such cases are almost invariably success- 
fully coped with. The germs of malarial 
poison travel to a hight of about 60 feet and 




WM. STEITENROTH, Architect, 
are then dissij^ated. The country on the 
North, East and South sides of the City of 
Natchez is hilly, and Natchez is justly called 
the "Bluff City.,' Our altitude is such that 
we constantly enjoy cool, refreshing breezes 
from the Culf, making the evenings and 
nights very pleasant even in midsummer. 

Natural Drainage — The centre and side- 
walks of each street are about two feet high- 
er than the flutters on either side, with a 
natural decline toward the river, and all wa- 
ter is carried at once to that stream. Stag- 
nant water jionds are as much unknown to 
Natchez as are ice and snow in winter. Af- 
ter the heaviest rainfall twenty-four hours, 
the streets are dry. No artificial means 
could improve our natural drainage. 

Its Spring like Climate— Here the sunshine 
is an every day occurrence. It is neither 
too hot nor too cold, the thermometer rarely 
going above 90 degrees in Summer and nev- 
er below zero in winter, making the dry, non- 
poisonous atmosphere so essentially necessa- 
ry to the relief and cure of those suffering 
with pulmonary and bronchial diseases. Con- 



sumptives, from the cold Northwestern cli- 
mate, can, in many instances, be cured, and 
always have life prolonged by a residence in 
this climate. Consumption seldom originates 
here, except among the negro population, 
and then the cause can invariably be traced 
to neglect and improper care. 

Our Pure Drinking water — Itiswellknown 
that cholera and kindred diseases are invari- 
ably traced to impure well wa'^er. Rain- 
water, the purest of all waters, is used by 
every family in this city. Large and care- 
fully constructed cisterns are built, and are 
filled during our rainy or winter season with 
a supply sufficient to last through the sum- 
mer. 

A visit to our city and an investigation of 
its claims cannot fail to satisfy the most skep- 
tical. 



LIVE STOCK. 



O the stock farmer this country offers 
extraordinary inducements over any oth- 
er. First, the cHmate ; second, the lux- 
uriant pasture ; third, the fine water ; 
fourth, the market ; fifth, ^the slight cost of 
raising an animal. 

The even temperature of Southwest Mis- 
sissippi is destined to be her crowning glory, 
for with it come all the other blessings: health, 
wealth and happiness. A few days in each 
winter the temperature falls to about 15 de- 
grees above zero, and a very few in summer 
it is above 90. 

Our land is splendidly adapted to meadow 
and pasture grasses, which grow with such 
rapidity that close-cropping animals, like 
sheep, cannot keep them down. 

Fine water, one of the great essentials for 
stock raising, is here in abundance, in wells, 
cisterns and running streams. 

The market facilities are of the very best, 
with plenty of rail and river facilities to in- 
sure low freight rates. 

With all the above points settled, the gen- 
eral cost of raising stock is reduced to the 
minimum. In the North and West I beHeve 
the cost for grain to feed each head of cat- 
tle through a winter is about $25. Here no 
grain is fed at all. There are two or three 
breeders of fine cattle and horses near this 
city, and in February this year I visited their 
farms and found every animal sleek and fat, 
and was informed they had never seen any 
grain in their troughs in their lives— nothing 
but the rich, juicy hay, produced right on 
the farms. 

For hogs there is no better place in the 




" Elmscourt," Residence of the Merrills, Natchez Suburbs. 




Residence of Henry Frank, Natchez. 




Natchez Cotton Mills, Main Building. 




St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Natchez. 



ADAMS COUNTY— Our Militij 



25 



world. All the ground crops that are raised 
anywhere grow abundantly here, and the 
mast includes acorns, beech-nuts and other 
fattening tree fruits. 

Sheep are a remarkable success here. The 
writer spent the greater part of his life in the 
North, and knows the anxiety with which 
the farmer cares for his sheep ; and to be a 
successful sheep farmer there requires capi- 
tal with which to house them properly, for, 
when a sheep makes up his mind that he is 
tired of bad weather, he is going to die. and 
it is useless to try to save him Here, the 
climate is especially suited to them ; all the 
shelter they care for is given by a rick of corn 
fodder for them to pass under and browse at 
until a cold rain is over. Only once in about 
seven years do we have snow, and there nev- 
' er has been more than one snow storm dur- 
ing a winter, and that does not last two days. 
Considerable attention is now being de- 
voted to fine breeds of cattle, and in every 
instance those brought from the North have 
been improved. The natives here read with 
astonishment last winter, the telegrams from 
the West telling of cattle perishing in the 
storms. They cannot conceive how the 
weather can be severe enough to kill stock, 
and yet stockmen be induced to remain in 
that country. 

Fine horses are, and always have been the 
pride of Southern people, and although they 
are pretty severe in their usage sometimes, 
it is a common thing to see a span of high- 
headed twenty-year-olds dashing along the 
streets like colts. 

Everything about this country is conducive 
to long life to both man and beast, and the 
only reason it has not been filled up long ago 
is that the people of the North have not 
known its value. 

OUR MILITIA. 



I'ATCHEZ has always been justly proud 
of her soldiers. She encourages mili- 
tary organization, not for warlike pur- 
(=;;f^ poses, but because it brings the young 
men together socially and the drills develope 
their muscles and make them better men 
physically. We will not attempt the early 
history of the companies here, but will speak 
briefly of each to-day. 

Adams Light infantry was organized in 1 876 
and is composed mainly of veterans of the 
recent war. Captain T. Otis Baker, an old 
veteran and thoroughly accomplished drill- 
master, is annually re-elected chief officer; 



the company have a nicely furnished armory, 
and are among the fixtures of the city. 

The Natchez I'encibles claim the honorof 
being the oldest military company in the 
city. The present company is composed of 




Capt. F. J. V. LeCand. 
young men whose fathers made its name fa- 
mous in years gone by. Ca|)t. Fred. J. V.- 
LcCand, a gentleman of well known military 
ability, and also a veteran, has command. 

The memory of the valiant deeds of their 
ancestors inspired the organization of the 
Natchez Rifles about a year ago, and through 
the persistent drilling of their enthusiastic cap- 
tain, Brinton B Davis, thev have become sc^ 




Capt. Brinton B. Davis, 
perfect in the tactics that they will soon chal- 
lenge the Mobile company, who won the first 
prize at the national drill in May last, and 
they undoubtedly have a fair jirospect of a 
successful competition. 



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26 



ADAMS COUNTY— Don t— Secret Societies. 



SECRET SOCIETIES. 

?P 

fUR city has a representative organiza- 
tion of almost every fraternity in exist- 
ence: Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of 
_ Pythias, Knights of Honor, Knights of 
Xabor, Catholic societies, Jewish societies^ 



DON'T. 



ON'T judge the South by merely viewing 
it from a flying railroad train. If you 
do you will form a poor opinion every 
'^)i time. Remember that Mississippi pass- 
ed through a war which left few houses and 




Grand Master Mason E. G. DeLap. 
<Colored societies, all in a flourishing condi- 
tion. Some of our citizens have been honor- 
«ed by their brethren of the Grand Lodges of 
^he State: the present Grand Master Mason 
:and the Grand High Priest of Royal Arch 
Masons, are Natchez business men. In the 





J. C. Schwartz' Block. 

no fences standing ; that Mississippi is 6,000 
I square miles larger than Ohio, and has only 
i one-third as many inhabitants, half of whom 
I Are shiftless negroes, who do not aspire to 

own land, and who are ignorant of all proper 
\ means of cultivating it if they did own it. 



Grand High Priest C. T. Chamberlain. 
Jewish and Catholic circles man}- of our cit- 
izens are honored with high positions. 
"^ A sketch of each of the lodges here would 
Ix interesting to fraternities generally but 
limited space forbids it in this work. 




Rumble & Wensei's Block. 

Stop at our towns; talk to our people; drive 
out and examine the land; ask how long it 
has been used without fertilizer, and what it 
is now producing. Observe the way it is 
tilled, and you will as surely come to the 
conclusion that you can find no better place 
to cast vour lot. 



Southern Farms. A. BEER & CO., 

Cotton Factors and Commis- 
Blackburn makes a'specialty of ' SION MERCHANTS- 



buying, rentino;- and selling farms. 

Cotton plantations and stock farms, 
with all improvements and well wa- 
tered for sale and rent. 



flour, grain, 

mp:al, mkats, 

western produce. 



Northerners who desire a home in : 
the "Sunny South" should address CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



S. C. BLACKBURN, 

REAL ESTATE AGENT 

NATCHEZ. 



Agents for Armour & Co. 



HealMrters for BaM& Ties 





D. S. MKRRILI 



W. C. MARTIH. 



FOUNDRY 

AND MACHINE SHOP; merrill& martin 

LAW, REAL ESTATE & LOAN OFFICE 

STEAM ENGINES. 

COTTOR PRESSES, 
SHAFTINGS, 

PULLEYS. 
PIPE AND FITTINGS 
BRASS GOODS. ETC. 

hm\ lEepair Mi 

IPBI^MS GASH. 



OFFICE: — No. 17^ S. Commerce St. 
NATCHEZ. MISS. 



BANKERS 

IbTatclLez, . _ - - Itvdiiss. 
[established 1867] 

Do a General Banking Business 
and deal in Foreign and Domestic 
Exchange. 

Collections made on all accessible 
points and remitted for on day of 
payment. 

Accounts of Banks, Bankers Cor- 
porations and Individuals solicited, 



TIPERBAULT 



[established 1 871] 



Mens' Youths' and Boys' 

CLOTHI^^G- 

FURNISHING GOODS 



CORNER MAIN COMMERCE STS. 





Drs. Geo. W. and I. B. Rem- 
bert have one of the largest and 
most select dental practices almost, 
that is to be found anywhere in the 
South. They are widely known as 
thorough and skillful dentists and 
gentlemen of the strictest integrity. 
Their dental parlors are located at 

87 MAIN STREET, 

and they embrace elegance, com- 
fort and business convenience. 

Their terms are reasonable and 
to have their services insures you 
the full worth of your money. Give 
them a call. 



THE PERFECT NUMBER 




AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE 

Best In the World I 

Office — Opposite Britton & Koontz Bank. 



ADAMS COUNTY— Hunting and Fishihg. 



27 



HUNTING AND FISHING. 

BY JOHN F. JENKINS. 

'HILE the energies of our people are 
bent toward the advancement of their 
manufacturing and agricultural iater- 
ests; and while the rewards which have 
accrued to those who first launched the man- 
facturing enterprises are exciting further em- 
ulation m these directions, still there are mo- 
ments spared from the press of business by 
many of our citizens to indulge in the health- 
ful and manly exercise of field sports, which 
the near country around furnishes in attract- 
ive abundance and variety. 

Within a radius of twenty miles around 
Natchez the sportsman can find deer, bear, 
wild turkeys and quail in abundance ; and in 
their proper season, ducks, snipe and wood- 
cock. 

Deer — The popular mode of hunting deer 
in this section is to drive them with hounds, 
and take stands for them in the runways. 
Good deer-hunting of this sort can be had 
in St. Catherine's swamps, six miles from 
Natchez; also near Fairchild's Island, thir- 
teen miles distant, and in the Homochitto 
swamps, twenty miles away; but the best 
deer-hunting, perhaps, in America, is to be 
found on Ben's Lake, in the edge of Cata- 
houla Parish, Louisiana, midway between 
the Tensas and Ouachita rivers, and the dis- 
tance from Natchez is only twenty-eight miles. 
It is easy of access by wagon, or by rail and 
steamer. The species of deer in this sec- 
tion are the common Virginia deer. The 
buck with four or five points on his horns 
often nets 200 to 250 pounds, and have been 
known to reach 300 pounds. 

Bear — The species of bear is the con^mon 
black fellow. He is found in great abun- 
dance on Turtle lake, about thirteen miles 
from Natchez, and is plentiful all over Con- 
cordia parish. Our bear generally net about 
250 to 300 pounds, when full grown. They 
are always hunted with dogs. 

Wild Turkeys — Are found in almost ev- 
ery direction from Natchez. Their favorite 
resorts are Big Oak Ridge, in St. Catherine 
Swamp, and in the Homochitto swamp. 
They are most commonly hunted in the 
months of March and April, when they are 
mating. Wild turkey gobblers often attain 
a weight of 20 pounds. Hunting turkeys is 
exciting sport, and many sportsmen, among 
them the writer, derive greater satisfaction 
from the capture of a twenty-pound gobbler 
with his eighteen-inch beard, than from kill- 



ing a two-hundred-pound buck with six points 
on his antlers. 

Quail or Partridge. — Of all the field 
sports in this vicinity quail shooting is the 
pursuit that has the most devotees. It is 
the one that is easiest to reach and is certain 
to put game in the bag in the shortest time. 
The very best localities near Natchez for this 
game are Stanton Station, on the " Little J." 
railroad, " Beverly " plantation in Second 
Creek bottom and others, all within twelve 
miles of the city. 

Ducks. — In the middle of November the 
ducks begin to arrive and afford fine sport 
until January. We have the Mallard and 
Teal in great abundance. There are many 
fine resorts for this bird, but the favorite one 
is Homochitto swamp, because of the growth 
of wild celery, which has a great attraction for 
them and gives their flesh a most deHcious 
flavor. 

Snipe — Good shipe hunting can be had in 
the months of February and March at (riles* 
swamp, at "Beverly" and "Frogmore" plant- 
ations. On the latter place they are in great 
abundance. 

Fish. — There are many fine fish in our 
neighboring lakes. Our great game fish are 
the green trout and the bar fish or striped 
bass. The best bait for the trout is a small 
minnow, while the bar fish is readily taken 
with shrimp. The trout weighs from one to 
eight pounds, and the bar fish from one to 
four pounds. 

A Few Bags That Have Been Made. — 
Near Ben's lake, a party of hunters killed 
1200 pounds of vension on a single hunt. 

In quail shooting the average hunter bags 
about twenty birds ])er day; but a bag of 75 
birds was made in one day on " Beverly " 
plantation. 

The biggest bags of birds have been made 
on Sicily Island, where 90 birds per diem to 
the man is not considered extraordinary. 

At Oaillard's lake a party of four hunters 
killed in one day two hundred and three Mal- 
lard ducks. One of the party, the president 
of the (raillard Sporting Club, scoring sixty- 
five Mallards in three hours snooting. 

Bags of two hundred snipe to two hunters 
have been made in one day. 

One of the best bags known to the writer 
was made by a jiarty of three sportsmen in 
the vicinity of Gaillord's lake, when, in two 
days they had 21 (juail, 15 snipe, 5 wood- 
cock, 35 green-winged Teal, 10 Mallards 
and I deer. 

One of the recorded fish frys took place 
at Old River cut off. when 475 bar fish were 



ADAMS COUNTY — Hunting and Fishing — Laws of Mississippi. 



taken with rod and line from 5 to 9 o'clock 
a. m., by eight fishermen. 

GAME LAWS. ETC. 

The game laws of this county have recent- 
ly been amended so as to prohibit all hunt- 
ing of every species of game from March 15 
to November i, of each year. This is a 
strict law and no doubt should be modified 
as to some varieties of game. But the idea 
is that if there are different dates for differ- 
ent game, pot hunters will take advantage of 
it to destroy some game whose period for 
being hunted had expired. 

Our farmers and planters as a rule make 
no objection to sportsmen hunting on their 
lands, and where there is an exceptional case 
of ''posting" the lands, a personal appHca- 
tion readily obtains the desired permission. 

One of the chief recommendations that 
Natchez and vicinity offer to the zealous 
sportsman is its magnificent chmate. Dur- 
ing the shooting season, from November to 
March, there are only a few days when the 
weather is at all bitter, say from January i 
to 15, the average temperature for the bal- 
ance of the shooting season ranging from 40 
to 64 degrees Fahrenheit, so the sportsman 
can utilize almost the whole of the shooting 
season without that strain upon the health 
which extremes of temperature in many oth- 
er places so often exerts. 

The object in sending out this book is to 
let the world know what we have here, and 
I would say to visitors after you have exam- 
ined our agricultural and industrial resources 
come and take a hunt with us, and we will 
show you that in addition to the other things 
we have hunting and fishing second to no 
place in America. 



LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. 

HERE is exempt from seizure and sale, 
under execution or attachment, in favor 
of each head of a family or housekeeper 
in this State, the following property, to- 
wit : Two work-horses or mules or one yoke 
oxen, two cows and calves, five head of stock 
hogs and five sheep, one hundred and fifty 
bushels of corn, ten bushels of wheat or rice, 
two hundred pounds of pork or bacon or 
other meat, one cart or wagon net to exceed 
one hundred dollars in value, household and 
kitchen funiture to be selected by the debtor 
not to exceed one hundred dollars in value, 
three hundred bundles of fodder, one sewing 



machine, and all colts under three years old 
raised in this State by the debtor, and the 
wages of every laborer or mechanic to the 
amount of one hundred dollars. The fol- 
lowing property is likewise exempt in the 
hands of the persons, named, viz : The tools 
of a mechanic necessary in carrying on his 
trade, the agricultural implements of a farm- 
er necessary for two male laborers, the im- 
plements of a laborer necessary in his usual 
employment, the books of a student required 
for the completion of his education, the wear- 
ing apparel of every person, the Hbraries of 
licen.sed attorneys at law, practicing physi- 
cians and ministers of the gospel not exceed- 
ing two hundred and fifty dollars in value; also 
the instruments of surgeons and dentists used 
in their profession not exceeding two hun- 
dred and fifty dollars in value, the arms and 
accoutrements of each person of the militia 
of the State, and all globes, books and maps 
used by teachers of schools, academies and 
colleges. That every citizen of this State, 
male or female, being a householder and 
having a family, shall be entitled to hold, 
exempt from seizure or sale under execution 
or attachment, the land and buildings owned 
and occupied as a residence by such debtor, 
provided the quantity of land shall not ex- 
ceed one hundred and sixty acres nor the 
value thereof, inclusive of improvements, the 
sum of two thousand dollars. The Legisla- 
ture of the State has passed a law "exempting 
from taxation for ten years the machinery 
used for the manufacture of cotton and woolen 
goods, yarns and fabrics composed of these 
or other materials, or for the manufacture of 
agricultural implements and machinery. 




Meteodist Episcopal Church, Natchez. 




Residence of Dr. S. Kelly, Natchez. 




R. F. Learned's Saw Mill. 




Natchez College, (Colored.) 



R. M. DIXON. 



J. F. DIXON. 



DIXON BROTHERS 



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PAINTS, OILS and GLASS 

^'INDOW SHADh^b, 

^IGTUI^S CQOULDING. 
G^PicTUREs Framed to Order in First-Class Style. =^d 

FINEST T.ALHNT IN THE CITY on Ornamental Sijjn and 
House Paintini^, Papering;. Kalsomiming, L-tc. 

DIXON BROTHERS. 

1 10 MAIN STREET. 



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STr,.,...uRNAMEN .GLASSWORKS 

ORNAMl':X i AL <.....-,., . v;.x .k;w.v . .v..i:i.S. IRAXSOMS, 
PKRSCRIPTION CASKS. DRUGGISTS' SIGNS. 
RAILROAD CARS, STKAMIUWT OI-FICKS. 
PUBLIC BUILDINGS. KTC. CiROUND IN. ANY 
QUANTITY. SA riSFACTION GUARANT1':HI). 

SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND PRICE LISTS 

1 ) I \ ( )X BJiOTTIEI ^vS k CO., 

p. 0. Box 192. isr^tcli.ez:, IL^iss. 



LIBRfiRY OF CONGRESS 



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56 PLANTATIONS FOR SALE 56 

From $2.50 per Acre up. Far below the real value. Many with 
improv•em♦•llt^ on them worth the price of the property. • , 

Healthy, Fertile and Productive 

F^armers and Capitahsts who wish to (^et in on 

THE GROUND FLOOR 

OP T-HE 

SHOULD CONSULT 

The Real Estate Man 

of Natchez, Mississippi 



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200 LOTS FOR S A [T: 200 

Both cciurai and Suinii luu^, in thv. i,v..iui.K.< v_it>- ol Natchez, lor 
Business, or Residence purposes, Improved and Unimproved, by 

C. R. Byrnes, Jr., 

Room 3, Democrat Building 

Natchez, Miss. 

p. O. I^ox 26S. 

11^==^ Correspondence Solicited. All property shown in person. 



